Adventures in Usenet!

The comp.lang.java.programmer Usenet group is a good source of help, and occasionally a good heated debate. You have your serious technical discussions, newbie questions, with a periodic sprinkling of homework help.

My favorites, though, are the completely ambiguous requests. Take, for example, this post from early this morning:

hi everyone.. ı have a problem about j2me... how can ı write codes
with jcreator for mobile phones? can anyone help me?
thank you

What's wrong with this request? First of all, as I mentioned, it's a completely ambiguous request. It'd be no different if someone posted asking, "how can I write a program in Java?" You need to be more specific when asking for help.

Second, it shows no initiative on your part. Before posting for help, you should have at least read some tutorials or started reading a book. Your question should be about something in particular you're stuck on ("I keep getting this compilation error and can't figure out why") rather than an all-encompassing question like "how can I write codes with jcreator for mobile phones?".