How does this group benefit MCSE's and candidates.

Today is the 5th time I have attempted to read this group. Each time I start
reading I end up spending just about the whole time reading nonsense. Is
there a newsgroup for serious MCSE's and candidates?

-jr

 

Yes, this is it. We just get a lot of noise from people who can't be
bothered with learning the basics first.

 

Ignore the nonsense. There are some really good posts on this board.

 

This can be a useful group. Just weed throught he garbage and you will find
good postings. In time, you will know who posts on-topic and who should be
avoided.

 

If people post dumb questions, it is likely they will receive
appropriate replies.
If anyone ever posts a sensible question, it is also likely that they
will receive an appropriate reply.

If you'd care to start the ball rolling ...

Andy

 

http://communities.microsoft.com/newsgroups/default.asp?
icp=windows2000

 

Garbage In Garbage Out but you probably are so new to computers that you
have never heard that term.

 

ah the eternal optimist

 

yup i think we do

 

define "dumb" question
define "sensible" question

 

huh??

 

GIGO.

As he stated... You provide garbage as input, you get garbage as output.

Are you really that new, Billy, or is this not something they say in
ENGLAND?

 

that would be brit humour...
not humor

 

Isn't that ironic?

 

oops colonials and irony... does not compute does not compute

You're crazy. We know irony.

It's like rain... on your wedding day. Or a free ride... when you've
already paid... Or good advice that you just didn't take...


oh wait... Alanis is Canadian isn't she...



damnit

 

dont ya think

 

but still a colonial... but canadians are a different breed
nice try tho

 

You're experiencing the same disappointment that anyone who came here with
serious intentions has already experienced. Since we can't police
ourselves, I actually wish this were a moderated newsgroup. Unfortunately
there is no where else to go. All I can recommend is to set the ignore
conversation flag on threads that are off topic. Believe it or not, it has
actually gotten much better over the last few weeks (most likely because
certain individuals have not been posting), so there is some hope that
someday we'll be able to come here and share ideas with other MCSEs and
wannabe MCSEs.

 

The purpose for some of those people you're referring to coming here is to
learn the basics. There are people out there that have a genuine interest,
but don't know newsgroup etiquette, or don't know that questions have been
asked before, or whatever the case may be. As an example someone may ask,
how do I perform a certain function. They're then summarily flamed because
the question has been asked many times before, or they could have found the
answer if they did some research on their own. I'll agree that some
questions do deserve the response the get (although I disagree that it needs
to be given in the manner that it is), but if you were sitting in on a class
and asked a teacher a question, how would you feel if the teacher flamed you
because someone asked the same question last class, and the class before
that, etc? The purpose of these newsgroups is for people with similar
interest to gather and exchange information. Sometimes that means answering
the same question more than once. For those that don't have that kind of
patience they don't have to respond. It seems that the same people that do
the flaming for dumb or repeated questions have no problem with devoting a
considerable amount of energy to "nonsense" as the original poster noted.

 

Why do you think that we have to subscribe to your definition of a dumb
question? ...and who made you the protector of the integrity of this
newsgroup?