Jim Felder wrote:
> For the times that I haven't been able to get answer out of the
> archive, and actually have plead for help, I've asked again and someone
> has always answered me.

This is important.  People will be a lot more helpful if you demonstrate
that you've made an effort to find the answer on your own.

This focuses on how to ask questions on software-oriented mailing lists,
but there's a lot of advice in it that relates to *any* mailing list:
http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html

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David Brodbeck, N8SRE
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