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- From: Bryant.Graham@f4.n292.z1.fidonet.org (Bryant Graham)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
- Subject: ***** README: How to find answers to your linux questions. *****
- Message-ID: <728095509.AA36502@remote.halcyon.com>
- Date: Sun, 24 Jan 1993 19:10:53 -0800
- Sender: UUCP@remote.halcyon.com
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- Re: ***** README: How to find answers to your linux questions. *****
-
- > From: janl@ifi.uio.no (Nicolai Langfeldt)
- > Reply-To: janl@ifi.uio.no
- > Much of the volume on comp.os.linux used by questions that have been
- > answered tens, hundreds or even thousands of times.
-
- Your oh so right, Nicolai.
-
- > The faq is _large_ but very well organized, and face it: you have to
- > read _some_ docs to keep your system running smoothly, and the faq is
- > a minimum.
-
- Yes, it's been very helpful to many people.
-
- > The problem is that the people who know the answers grow tired of
- > answering the same questions time after time and stop answering. This
- > is not what anyone wants, so please RTFM before asking. The manuals
- > might be hard to understand, but please make a effort.
- > If people could start doing this life on comp.os.linux would become
- > better and maybe we could get rid of all the split posts too :)
- > Nicolai
- > * Origin: Gated by remote.fidonet.org (1:343/94)
-
- Note the '* Origin' on my end. I'm receiving this via Fido net. Because
- Linux
- is such a excellent piece of work many, many people who otherwise have
- had no
- access or introduction to Unix and now are being drawn into this much
- larger
- 'World'! They don't know META-FAQ from Apple-Jacks (a good breakfast
- food).
- I would think a monthly note welcoming this 'type' of person to this
- brave
- new world, from one point of origin, noting such things as you pointed
- out
- in your note in a more welcoming manner would be very much appreciated.
- Your
- going to find more new people from a much much more diverse experience
- entering these areas and wrist slapping will tire you out eventually.
-
-
- Bryant Graham
-
- Disclaimer: Heck, I'm out on this limb by myself
-
- * Origin: Mt. Olympus (1:292/4)
-
-