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Re: SS leg - answers with or later on
From: Eric Haberfellner
Date: 2001 Dec 13, 1:07 PM
From: Eric Haberfellner
Date: 2001 Dec 13, 1:07 PM
I like the idea of having the answers in a seperate clearly marked message. Eric Haberfellner -----Original Message----- From Navigation Mailing List [mailto:NAVIGATION-L@LISTSERV.WEBKAHUNA.COM]On Behalf Of Peter Sent: Monday, December 10, 2001 11:31 PM To: NAVIGATION-L@LISTSERV.WEBKAHUNA.COM Subject: SS leg - answers with or later on 'OK. Lets hear from everyone else. I have had people complain that the answers were posted too soon. So????' Like a lot of things there are pluses and minuses, both ways. Not having the answers does make it a little harder, which may be no bad thing (and closer to the real world) and may encourage people to write in with results and problems encountered. One way to keep most people happy might be to post the answers as a separate message and clearly labeled. Then people could choose when to open them. Another would be to alternate, with answers on one leg, without the next. Or, and this may be what you are doing, encourage people to vote then count the result. All along this process of learning Nav I have liked having the answers, it means you can work both forwards towards a result and back from the answer to find out how they got it (!) but after thinking about it I would like to vote for having the answers posted later on. After all, once they are posted it encourages you to have another session with the problem. Remember the power of persistance - greater, eventually, than talent or cleverness. Peter Fogg