Path: csiph.com!usenet.pasdenom.info!news.franciliens.net!news.muarf.org!news.ecp.fr!aioe.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: =?UTF-8?b?xLVlc3M=?= stone Newsgroups: comp.lang.java.programmer Subject: Re: Help with paper, rock, scissors game Date: Mon, 21 Jul 2014 21:59:28 +0000 (UTC) Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 16 Message-ID: References: <33990a2f-f59c-434f-9db4-6713e31f4c05@googlegroups.com> <11b809de-5b61-44de-9971-5c8db172467a@googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: Bhq7QvDMAnewSCiM1cqmEg.user.speranza.aioe.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Complaints-To: abuse@aioe.org User-Agent: Forte Agent 6.00/32.1186 X-Notice: Filtered by postfilter v. 0.8.2 Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.java.programmer:29169 In article lqivf1$es9$1@dont-email.me, Martin Gregorie said... > Each newsgroup has its own etiquette: this one doesn't encourage private > replies, frowns on posting abuse and generally expects you to have used > a web search before asking about something you could easily have found > out by searching. Caveat: that only applies if it's obvious, without hindsight, that you can easily find out by searching. So, when there's an obvious, fairly specific search to use, that one can expect will produce only relevant results. Not if all you have to go on is three letters, say, or if someone says "mugwumps" and a search for "mugwumps" wouldn't tell you much (perhaps because there's six or seven different things called "mugwumps" rather than just one), and though a search for "cloverfish" would, someone who didn't already know this stuff would have no reason to think to search for "cloverfish" to find out about "mugwumps".