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- From: HEGE@FINABO.ABO.FI (Kaj H{ggman DC)
- Subject: Re: Butthead - maybe we could finish it here?
- In-Reply-To: bergerson@cvdv79.mayo.edu's message of 22 Dec 92 21:15:50 GMT
- Message-ID: <1992Dec23.121422.18011@abo.fi>
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- Organization: Abo Akademi University, Finland
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- Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1992 12:14:22 GMT
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- In <1992Dec22.211550.19290@bmw.mayo.edu> bergerson@cvdv79.mayo.edu writes:
- > It's a shame that some people have to be know-it-all jerks. Anyone who flames
- > or ridicules someone for asking a question is just insecure with what they
- > know and are trying to make themselves look better.
-
- This is probably quite close to the truth.
-
- At the same time it is one of the sad side effects of electronic mail
- and conferences - people who are quite nice "face-to-face" can be real
- d*ckheads when they get a chance to be "anonymous".
-
- Here at the University there are usually a few cases (1st year students)
- every year, but they always grow up and learn how to behave.
- Some people just don't seem to learn that at home.
-
- >Come on know-it-alls, didn't any of you ever have to ask for help before???
-
- Quite right. What I really don't understand is, why anybody bothers to write
- loooooong flames and waste their (probably) valuable time, when one could
- just skip the message and go to the next one?
-
- > No question is dumb and I would extend the same courtesies to someone with a
- > quetion that I would want when I have one.
-
- If I don't remember wrong you are even taught that at school (at least
- over here). It should be part of everybody's education.
-
- SO:
- - all of us don't know the answers to all questions
- - all of us (like me) don't speak or write English fluently - that doesn't
- make us less intelligent (no comments about me :-)
- - all of us even don't know how to RTFM (I hope I do)
-
- That shouldn't prevent us from using this magnificent resource - the net -
- in order to solve our problems better and faster than anyway else,
- should it?
-
- Maybe the typical FAQ's don't need to be followed up (we don't want
- to read the answers, nor the flames), they could just be replyed?
-
- AND, you could read your posting (at least once) before you post it
- (believe it or not, I did that).
-
- I dunno.
-
- Anyway, Merry Christmas And A Happy New (less flamey :-) Year 1993!
-
- Regards,
- -=HeGe=-
-
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