On Wed, 6 Sep 2000, Leslie Bester [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I still await the days when one can post a legitimate question to a
> list, without receiving a barrage of out of context messages with
> personal opinions, and RTFM a**hole, especially when they send them to
> the list. Perhaps this is why some lists are moderated.
Back in the day... you knew who was out there. Basically, it was
universities and a few high tech businesses here and there. People
respected others -- or at least dirty laundry wasn't spread out all
over.
Anyone else remember when the dot-com to dot-edu ratio was reversed?
These days, kiddies treat their knowledge of *anything* as somthing to
use against you. Perhaps they know only one thing, but holy-hell hope
that you don't even let them think that you don't just happen to know
this one thing that they know, or else you'll undoubtedly have
it handed to you, if you know what I mean.
Example: Ask someone why cnames aren't allowed in MX records. You'll
get insulted, told that you're stupid... you'll have dozens of people
telling you to read some FAQ or, if they're clever and/or have heard it
before, they might even go so far as to tell you read some RFC...
but, it seems to me, that 99.999_% of the people out there don't know
why. I'm not going to enlighten this list (because there are too many
closed minded people on it), because there are already those here who
are going to flame me and attack me back... get over it. Try thinking
for yourself for once, eh? I'd tell you RTFM, but, alas, there's no FM
for you.
It is amusing when kiddies tell you to RTFM on an app that YOU wrote and
that YOU wrote the FM.... or, kiddies try to give you back some
super-elite code that does something neat, but they want something
special in return -- when it's code that you're written...
Anyway ... back to the point: The simple point is, we could all simply
share and help each other and instead of bashing each newbie that comes
along, simply be nice and show, by example, how to act.
We're all different, and the world is only getting more crowded. The
"kids" these days are already a whole heck of a lot more violent and
far less tolerant... and having a global communications medium only
seems to let the negatives become highly visible.
Scott
