Help Me Help You

January 7, 2013
tech

You’ve finally got fed up enough with whatever your current problem is to ask for help from someone. That help could come from a number of sources, but for the sake of argument, let’s imagine that it’s a mailing list. Further, let’s imagine that it’s a mailing list that I’m on, and that I genuinely want to help you. Here’s how you can help me help you:

Those are the key things, and they can be encapsulated as “I’m not you.” There are other things that are more likely to get me interested in helping you:

And, that, my friends, is all I have to say on that for now.

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