[Ryan M.]

I saw a link to this page on another forum I post on:
http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html

Note that there are a couple of cuss words, mostly in reference to acronyms. You've been warned.

I'd highly recommend anyone new to this forum or web forums in general read this. Obviously, some of it doesn't apply, (not to mention you get the feeling it's for hackers... ) but I'd strongly recommend these sections:

• Before you ask (Do a search!)
• Subject headings (This would be the title of your thread/post)
• Grammar, spelling, and capitalization
• Tell everything you know about the problem (Your guess on what is wrong is fine, just make sure you tell what the actual errors are as well. )
• What are you trying to do? (If you can't get it to work, then showing us how you did it doesn't really help much. If it doesn't work, then it doesn't do what you intended and hence doesn't really tell others exactly what you were trying to do! (*whew!* ))
• Again, what exactly do you want?
• Everyone likes a friendly guy
• Tell others how you solved it! (Others have the same questions you do. Save them the trouble of asking!)