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How To Ask Questions the Smart Way Eric Steven Raymond Thyrsus Enterprises ???? esr@???? Rick Moen ????respond-auto@???? Copyright ? 2001-2006 Eric S. Raymond and Rick Moen Table of Contents: Translations Disclaimer Introduction Before You Ask When You Ask Choose your forum carefully Web and IRC forums directed towards new users often give the quickest response As a second step, use project mailing lists Use meaningful, specific subject headers Make it easy to reply Write in clear, grammatical, correctly-spelled language Send questions in accessible, standard formats Be precise and informative about your problem Volume is not precision Dont claim youve found a bug Grovelling is no substitute for doing your homework Describe the problems symptoms, not your guesses Describe your problems symptoms in chronological order Describe the goal, not the step Dont ask people to reply by private e-mail Be explicit about your question Dont post homework questions Prune pointless queries Dont flag your question as Urgent, even if its for you Courtesy never hurts, and sometimes helps Follow up with a brief note on the solution How to Interpret Answers RTFM and STFW: How to tell youve seriously screwed up If you dont understand... Dealing with rudeness On Not Reacting Like A Loser Questions Not to Ask Good and Bad Questions If You Cant Get an Answer How to Answer Questions in a Helpful Way Related Resources Special Note for FAQ List Maintainers and Webmasters Acknowledgements Translations Translations: Bahasa Indonesian Brazilian-Portuguese Chinese Czech Danish Estonian Finnish French German Hebrew Hungarian Italian Japanese Polish Russian Serbian Spanish Swedish Turkish . If you want to copy, mirror, translate, or excerpt this essays master copy, please see Erics copying policy (which I, Rick Moen, endorse — this local copy, used for pending revisions intended to be re-merged, and to indulge my preference for Commonwealth spelling and for sundry pedantic usages, exists pursuan