[conspire] I get mail

[Adrien Lamothe]

Hey B.S., have you looked at the Mono project? Mono is
a .net suite for Linux; it has a fully functional
ASP.net implementation. You can check it out at
http://www.mono-project.com.

- Adrien


--- Rick Moen <rick at linuxmafia.com> wrote:

> I hope I wasn't too grumpy -- or long-winded.  It
> just gets to be a bit 
> much.  (I mean, when I was a clueless newbie, I'd
> have been mortified 
> at the notion of barging into some stranger's
> private mail without so
> much as a "please" or "Is there a better place to
> ask?"  Wouldn't you?)
> 
> In better news, Saturday is CABAL day again.  I hope
> to finally get
> around to re-doing my iBook G3 with the Ubuntu 5.10
> preview, among other
> things.  Join us if you can!
> 
> ----- Forwarded message from "B.Sridhar Babu"
> <sridhar.bandalamudi at ecanarys.com> -----
> 
> From: "B.Sridhar Babu"
> <sridhar.bandalamudi at ecanarys.com>
> To: rick at linuxmafia.com
> Date: Fri, 23 Sep 2005 11:53:13 +0530
> X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2900.2180
> Subject: Help
> 
> Please help me,
> 
> Iam Microsoft developer. 
> can asp web application work on linux system?
> what are the steps i have to fallow to run the asp
> application on linux system.
> 
> 
> thanks & regards
> 
> B.Sridhar Babu [SE]
>
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> ----- Forwarded message from Rick Moen
> <rick at linuxmafia.com> -----
> 
> Date: Fri, 23 Sep 2005 01:33:26 -0700
> From: Rick Moen <rick at linuxmafia.com>
> To: "B.Sridhar Babu"
> <sridhar.bandalamudi at ecanarys.com>
> Subject: Re: Help
> 
> Quoting B.Sridhar Babu
> (sridhar.bandalamudi at ecanarys.com):
> 
> > Iam Microsoft developer.  can asp web application
> work on linux
> > system?  what are the steps i have to fallow to
> run the asp
> > application on linux system.
> 
> Sridhar, it's inefficient use of volunteer resources
> to ask these
> questions of individual people in private e-mail. 
> You should ask on
> public forums such as the
> comp.os.linux.development.apps or
> comp.os.linux.misc Usenet newsgroups, or your nearby
> Linux user group's
> public mailing lists.
> 
> In addition, you will find that the Linux community
> is most willing to
> assist users who show some initiative, and who show
> signs of ability and
> willingness to help themselves.  E.g., I'll bet you
> didn't bother to
> enter this search string into Google:
> 
>    asp linux "web server"
> 
> Because, had you done so, you would not now be
> lazily asking a stranger
> as a personal private favour to answer a question
> that you could and
> should have easily answered by yourself.
> 
> If you want private tutoring -- which is what asking
> technical questions 
> of strangers in private mail amounts to doing -- 
> you should ask
> politely and offer to pay professional consulting
> rates.
> 
> On the other hand, if you show signs of having at
> least _tried_ to find
> answers from obvious sources of information before
> coming running for
> help, if you ask your questions in _public_ so that
> others will benefit
> from the question and the answers (not just
> yourself), and if you seem
> likely to assist others in turn, you'll be a welcome
> newcomer to our
> community.
> 
> I don't enjoy having to send replies like this one,
> but I get a
> number of inquiries like yours every week.  They
> never show any concern
> for furthering the community's state of collective
> knowledge (or concern
> for the community at _all_, for that matter), never
> show any sign of 
> having attempted to research the matter before
> asking, and never show
> even _gratitude_ for my time, let alone a
> willingness to pay for it.
> 
> And you know the crowning irony?  About 95% of those
> e-mails are from
> people who found my essay "How to Ask Questions the
> Smart Way" -- which
> details all of the above, and asks readers to not do
> what you're
> doing, _right at the top_.
> 
> ----- End forwarded message -----
> 
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