Re: request for help for research from Guatemala

[Han-Wen Nienhuys]

On Wed, Nov 3, 2010 at 7:13 PM, Graham Percival
<address@hidden> wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 03, 2010 at 06:35:55PM -0200, Han-Wen Nienhuys wrote:
>> On Wed, Nov 3, 2010 at 5:59 PM, Graham Percival
>> <address@hidden> wrote:
>> > If somebody makes an honest effort, I'm willing to help them with
>> > coursework.  But I saw no evidence that he had put any effort into
>> > his homework before sending an email.
>>
>> When faced with silly questions like these, I just ignore them. It
>> costs me even less of my time than answering RTFM.
>
> My reply was really aimed at other lilypond developers -- I wanted
> to discourage developers from taking it seriously and wasting half
> an hour helpfully describing stuff in an email to such a student.

I think it should up to those developers to decide whether such time
is 'wasted'.

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Han-Wen Nienhuys - address@hidden - http://www.xs4all.nl/~hanwen