[EAS]Internet Queries

[pjk]

Subject:   Internet Queries

Dear Colleagues -

Like me, you probably get the occasional rather mindless query of
first resort from middle-, high school and even college students.
If you think it deserves an answer at all, to "straightens out" the
questioner about what constitutes prior due diligence, consider
one of these as bookmarks

Eric Raymond on how to ask a technical question
http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html

An earlier EAS-INFO mailing "The art of getting help"
http://www.yale.edu/engineering/eng-info/msg00157.html

   --PJK