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Hi Philippe,

The list has been deluged for quite some time with people who join and ask 
questions that obviously appear to be homework assignments.  They show 
very little demonstration of knowledge of microcontrollers. Most of these 
e-mails come from Asian countries.

When I saw your e-mail, I thought you were someone who knew something 
about microcontrollers and were asking a legitimate question, not someone 
wanting us to do their homework for them.

But some people are touchy, I guess, about people doing this and just look 
at the foreign name and assume it's another student.

Zack

On Wed, 5 Dec 2007, Philippe Habib wrote:

> When did this become the accuse everyone who doesn't understand
> something of not trying hard enough list?
>
> I've only been on this list a couple of weeks and I have not found
> this kind of attitude from a few people very helpful or welcoming.
>
> I've been writing code professionally for 20+ years but sometimes, I
> suspect like all of us, I don't get something or overlook something
> stupid and at those times it sure would be nice to know I could ask a
> group of professionals for some help without someone deciding my
> question is too stupid and that I must be a 20 year old looking for
> someone to do his homework for him.
>
>
>
>> When did this list become a homework completion list?
>>
>> Have you tried to look at the datasheet?  There are also a large
>> number
>> of application notes at AVR Freaks as well as the Atmel web site, have
>> you looked there?
>