On Tue, Sep 23, 2008 at 11:54:19AM -0400, Jeff Kinz wrote: > And if an elderly respected expert in a given field tells you > RTFM, don't whine about it. RTFM advice is not (usually) an insult > or an attempt to be nasty. Its usually valid and ALWAYS a good > idea.
On the other hand, some people who offer RTFM as advice are neither elderly nor respected. And some just do it way too often, period. I second David's well-said thoughts about the subject, especially in the context of Mutt. No matter how much I love it, Mutt's configuration is intricate and complicated in the extreme; reading its manual is a bit like reading a text on computer architecture. It contains lots of good information which is usually right (but not always), but that is both a blessing and a curse: IT CONTAINS LOTS OF INFORMATION. :) It's also, IMO, not very well organized from the perspective of "I want to solve this particular problem with my e-mail, how do I do it?" Finding what you need in the manual can be quite difficult, unless you know exactly what you're looking for, and even then... If you have time to sit down and read the 240+ some-odd* pages of Mutt's manual, and you're very serious about managing your e-mail, then you should do that. But in the end, even if they do need more power than what Pine or Outlook offer, most people just want to read their mail. ----- * as approximated by paging at 66 lines and counting pages until I got bored with counting at about 50% -- Derek D. Martin http://www.pizzashack.org/ GPG Key ID: 0xDFBEAD02 -=-=-=-=- This message is posted from an invalid address. Replying to it will result in undeliverable mail due to spam prevention. Sorry for the inconvenience.
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