From: Ellen K. 

OK, suppose you reply with "LDAP" and expect the person with the
question to go type "LDAP" into Google and wade through however
many articles pop up to find out how to do what they want.  How does that
provide more than the person would get by typing "global ID" or
"single sign-on" (which is I guess what you mean by "global
ID") into Google? Other people here consider it appropriate to
actually answer each other's questions.  People post questions here because
we know each other and know whose answers on which topics can be relied on.

On Thu, 26 May 2005 12:38:50 +0100, Adam
 wrote in message
:

>Ellen K. wrote:
>
>> That's not what I meant.  I meant instead of explaining HOW to do
>> something, you just list off a bunch of acronyms.  Listing off the full
>> names would only improve the helpfulness from 1% to maybe 3%.
>>
>
>A) That's because acronyms are quicker to type into Google. E.g. if I
>reply to a how to do ID glabally with LDAP that is because it is the std
>for doing user authentication & frankly a quick search (given your MS
>bias you could use MSN search) for LDAP & ID authentication may well
>give you reams of usefull tutorials, howto'es etc.
>
>B) Excellant as I will in future save my time & yours by keeping the 1%.
>
>Adam
>
>
>> On Wed, 25 May 2005 14:51:48 +0100, Adam 
>> wrote in message :
>>
>>
>>>Ellen K. wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>>Actually, usually he replies with a string of acronyms.
>>>>
>>>
>>>Ah right so in future Ellen I'd like to see you use Visual Basic &
>>>Structured Query Language & Extensible Markup Language etc.
>>>
>>>Adam
>>>
>>>
>>>>On Tue, 24 May 2005 16:25:09 -0700, "Rich"
 wrote in message
>>>>:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>> So you do not often reply to problems people post here
that they should
just do it with java and maybe xml?  I'm not imagining it.
>>>>>
>>>>>Rich
>>>>>
>>>>>"Adam Flinton"
 wrote in message
news:4293743e$1{at}w3.nls.net...
>>>>>Rich wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>>Sometimes your
>>>>>>suggestions are outright silly.
>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>Ah how sweet. Some day you should emerge from your
campus & try the real
>>>>>world.
>>>>>
>>>>>Adam
>>>>
>>>>
>>

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