wcs@skep2.ATT.COM (Bill.Stewart.[ho95c]) (03/28/89)
In article <1823@umbc3.UMBC.EDU> rostamia@umbc3.umbc.edu.UMBC.EDU (Rouben Rostamian) writes:
< P.S.3: To those people who continue flaming about frequent and repeated
< postings of elementary questions in this news group: Short of starting
< a comp.unix.questions.elementary, if the answer to the
The group comp.unix.questions was started *specifically* because there
were a lot of questions being asked in comp.unix.wizards that weren't
wizard-level questions - remember that new users need to learn things,
too, and (after we've reminded them to RTFM) there are a lot of things
that are not obvious to an inexperienced user - even things that are in
the manuals often need a lot of thought, especially because
<heretical statements follow>
some of the manual pages aren't all that well-written, and
sometimes you have to know where to look before you look there.
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# Bill Stewart, AT&T Bell Labs 2G218 Holmdel NJ 201-949-0705 ho95c.att.com!wcs
# Washington, DC. Raining. Long, cold, heavy rain. Been raining for days.
# I was here last year in the spring. It was raining like this then, too.
echo This article public domain unless posted to an att.* group.dbell@cup.portal.com (David J Bell) (03/30/89)
>< P.S.3: To those people who continue flaming about frequent and repeated >< postings of elementary questions in this news group: Short of starting >< a comp.unix.questions.elementary, if the answer to the >The group comp.unix.questions was started *specifically* because there >were a lot of questions being asked in comp.unix.wizards that weren't >wizard-level questions - remember that new users need to learn things, >too, and (after we've reminded them to RTFM) there are a lot of things >that are not obvious to an inexperienced user - even things that are in >the manuals often need a lot of thought, especially because ><heretical statements follow> > some of the manual pages aren't all that well-written, and > sometimes you have to know where to look before you look there. ******* SOMETIMES???? ******* OFTEN the only way to find something is to have already RT<#!&*@$>FM, and virtually MEMORIZED it... Thank the UNIX gods for online man! Now if man were more like Hypertext... Dave dbell@cup.portal.com