On Wed, 21 Feb 2007 19:03:20 +0200, Uwe Thiem wrote:

> > More seriously, there is such a thing as a bad question, and they
> > significantly outnumber the good. Most questions provide too little
> > information to get a really useful answer. GIGO applies here as much
> > as anywhere else.  
> 
> While I agree with you in general, I still think that most noise on
> most mailing lists is due to bad answers, not questions.  Answers tend
> to get triggered by keywords without the answering folks reading the
> whole question.

That's a fair point, but there are also a lot of bad answers because the
questions required too much guesswork to answer.


-- 
Neil Bothwick

Out of sorts? Heck, I'm out of *most* algorithms!