--- On Mon, 8 May 2000 Raju Mathur <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >>>>> "Biju" == Biju Chacko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> Biju> On 05 May 2000 Sudhakar Chandrasekharan wrote:
> >> Here are some of my pet peeves:
> >> [snip]
>
> Biju> Add to that: a. People not doing an ounce of R&D before
> Biju> posting.
>
> This may sound heretical, but it's not easy to do R&D in Linux.
> I don't know of any screen which comes up at install time (for
> instance)and says, ``please try the following to get information
about
> Linux and its commands: (1) man -k, (2) look in /usr/doc, (3) info
> command,(4) look for a relevant HOWTO, ...'' If this happened it
> would help new users a lot.
You've got a point there. On one side I do my bit to promote Linux on
the desktop and on the other I crib when an average joe doesn't act
like a geek. But...
There _is_ a link to a page called 'What to do before posting to the
list' (http://botsie.tripod.com/beforeposting) that is added to the end
of posts in the list. Sure... it may not be the best guide on the web
-- but it _does_ list the steps you mentioned. It's a start at least.
You, Suresh, Nikhil, Thaths, and all the other guys in the small group
that have all the answers ;-) are not being _paid_ for your help. The
list doesn't owe anybody answers, least of all to those who haven't
shown themselves deserving of it.
I may be unduly harsh, but I have seen lists that have degenerated to
chaos because the pillars of the list got tired of answering the same
questions over and over and just dropped out. I know a lot of people in
Blr who are not on this list because they can't handle the volume.
Biju
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Biju "Botsie" Chacko
"With men and sex when it's right, it's right and when it's wrong, it's right." -
Fishism
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