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Re: unanswered questionsby merlyn (Sage) |
on Aug 01, 2005 at 16:47 UTC ( [id://479967]=note: print w/replies, xml ) | Need Help?? |
From time to time, I go back through my incoming email to see if there are questions I am now willing to answer but wasn't at the time it came in. (For various reasons, I have email from last week, last month, last year, and even last century in my inbox.)
I first send email to the person of "is this still a problem, or have you solved it by now?" More often than not, my lack of response has sent them somewhere else for a satisfactory solution. So I'd be wasting my time to also solve it now. I think that'd be true here as well. If the original poster isn't satisfied within the first few days, they'll likely seek help elsewhere. It's not useful then to re-solve the problem here, when there are so many other new timely postings each day. Considering the "people who are willing to help" to be a limited pool, let's keep people focussed on solving the useful (current!) issues. -- Randal L. Schwartz, Perl hacker
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