Replies to a message that do nothing but tell the poster to read the documentation are not considered useful unless they indicate the specific page of the documentation that the person should read.

I have, in the past, seen some posters that definitely were "totally blank" re the '51 and responded by giving the links to "the bible".

In such a case giving "the specific page of the documentation" would only result in another similar question being posted 5 minutes later.

I recall a poster that (this is not correct, but describes the process correctly) that posted "how do I use a timer?" then posted "how do I use interrupts?" then posted "how do i access external memory?" then posted ....

This 'rule' makes it virtually impossible to respond in a valuable way to a totally ignorant poster ('ignorant' not in a derogative sense, but referring to the '51).

Erik