>> 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!