FAQ Topic - Why was my post not answered?

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FAQ Topic - Why was my post not answered?
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This could be for several reasons:

* It was a variation of a frequently asked question and was therefore
ignored by everyone.
* No one knows the answer.
* The person with the answer has not seen the post.
* It might not be possible to do what you want to do but perhaps
readers of clj are reluctant to answer your post in the negative
when they are not convinced that it cannot be done.
* The question was not asked clearly enough, or included enough
information to be answered.
* The questioner did not realise the need to read the group, for a
few days, to see the answers posted there.

If it is not one of these, then after a few days consider
reposting after checking

http://groups.google.com/

for
replies. Make sure the post is phrased well, and everything
needed to answer is correct, and the subject is appropriate.


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re: FAQ Topic - Why was my post not answered?

In comp.lang.javascript message <45b94486$0$49209$14726298@news.sunsite.
dk>, Fri, 26 Jan 2007 00:00:01, FAQ server <javascript@dotinternet.be>
posted:
I'd have chosen "Nobody" there.
Urgh!

* The question was not asked clearly enough, or did not include
enough information to be answered.
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* The question was not asked clearly enough, or included
insufficient information to be answered.

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re: FAQ Topic - Why was my post not answered?

Dr J R Stockton said the following on 1/26/2007 2:00 PM:Changed.
Changed.

Also, the URL that it points to in that section:
<URL: http://groups.google.com/>
has been changed to point to the actual archives for this group:

<URL: http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.javascript/topics>

Other URLs in the document that refer to c.l.j and the archives for it
have been changed as well.

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re: FAQ Topic - Why was my post not answered?

On Jan 26, 10:00 pm, Dr J R Stockton <reply0...@merlyn.demon.co.uk>
wrote:I cannot tell for the British dialect of English, but in the canonical
(American) variant :-) "somebody", "anybody", "nobody" and all other
variants of "...body" in application to a person is a sign of lowered
style of speech - on the West Coast with added context of a slight
disrespect and/or superiority. This is of course in application to
some overall educated environment, say an office conversation - not in
application to each street exclamation. This is why in the
"multinationalization" :-) aspect one-forms such as "no one", "any
one" etc are suggested as universally context-neutral and showing some
class of speaker.

This way if the suggested correction was intended to a more vernacular
style then it is fine. If it was intended to spell the sentence in the
most correct way, then the result is right the opposite.

After all clj FAQ is not an English manual, but if it came to such
fine tune details...