rcd@ico.isc.com (Dick Dunn) (02/07/91)
d87-man@sm.luth.se (Mikael Adolfsson) writes: > gwyn@smoke.brl.mil (Doug Gwyn) writes: > >I thought this group was going to be reserved for wizards!? Now, a thinking person might have interpreted what Doug said in context-- not an attempt at censorship, but pointing out that people are posting stuff that doesn't belong in comp.unix.wizards. But no...this is USENET...nobody is ever wrong for sending ANYthing to ANY newsgroup. Dare to criticize drivel and the bleating about censorship starts: > Why would anyone want to reserve a newsgroup for a minority group of > people? What's the point in restricting the use of usenet? To me that > sounds like censorship, I hate censorship. Everyone should be granted > the right to express themselves. Yeah, right, somebody runs into a problem which is not trivial to solve, so he asks in the wizards group. Seven people who can barely read section 1 of the user's manual post solutions which have nothing to do with the problem, not only displaying their ignorance for all the world, but wasting everyone's time. (Remember, there *was* a problem to be solved at the beginning.) Worse still, the bogus postings often begin with phrases like "Can't you just..." or "I'm not sure, but I think..." Then it takes another handful of postings from other folks to explain why the bogus answers don't work. (For those who've watched from the sidelines but are curious about the answer: No, you can't escape or quote the slash. You can't fix it without root privilege because it's a corrupted directory entry. You can't get rid of the file with rm, and you can't move it with mv. There is no way to name the problem file from command level. The original poster knew that and stated it! It really *is* a tricky problem. Perhaps that's why the question was posted to c.u.wizards?) What the hell good is it to post an "answer" when you don't know and haven't tried it? *THAT* is what Doug was objecting to. He's not trying to be a censor; he's trying to suggest (altogether too politely, I think) that if you don't know what the hell you're talking about, you ought to shut the f* up because otherwise you're just making a nuisance of yourself. -- Dick Dunn rcd@ico.isc.com -or- ico!rcd Boulder, CO (303)449-2870 ...Don't lend your hand to raise no flag atop no ship of fools.