Short and clear answer about de-dupe:

It depends.

Hope this helps.

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Mr. Lindsay Morris
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On Jun 24, 2009, at Jun 24, 11:33 AM, goc wrote:

somewhat right but still over the top in my humble opinion ... so,
whatever
...you could simply answer with short and clear answer about dedupe
if you
know anything, or simply
ignore the question ... so your behavior is really odd.

On Wed, Jun 24, 2009 at 5:09 PM, Allen S. Rout <asr AT ufl DOT edu> wrote:

On Wed, 24 Jun 2009 13:00:52 +0200, madunix <madunix AT GMAIL DOT COM>
said:

I was reading the following on the net regarding dedupe, can I have
your opinion about the dedupe?

You may note that you get a somewhat sparse, even frosty, response
from this list.  I'll let you know why I, in particular, don't choose
to respond to most of your queries.

You ask questions in a sufficiently vague manner that the appropriate
answer is a long explanatory discourse.  But you don't appear to
welcome pointers to the authoritative discourse: the docs.  This is
fairly normal "newbie" behavior; nothing odd.

But your web presence indicates you feel yourself to be enough of a
TSM pro to put it on your CV.  From someone of that competence level,
the right questions are phrased something like:


Hi, I'm doing X, with Y sorts of machines, and I encountered Z.  Is
this what you expect, how are you-all doing this, etc..


The interesting social-group distinction is that, in one
communication
you are:

+ offering some advice and feedback to those more newbie than you.
This is important: you're giving before you're asking.

+ going out on a limb a bit, to show you have faith in your past
opinions, while offering them for correction

+ displaying enough context that those contemplating a reply know how
to phrase their answer.


The terse, broad requests feel more like 'will you do my homework for
me?', but I'm a known curmudgeon.  So, whatever.


- Allen S. Rout
- Get off my lawn!