On Sat, 2006-03-25 at 08:42 +0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Friday 24 March 2006 21:25, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > The discussion we've had so far went like this: > > > > * RTFM > > * Please don't use that term, it's inappropriate > > * It is not inappropriate > > * Yes, it is, and here's why: [...] > > * <meltdown> > > And in the meltdown everyone seems to ignore the <nice> or <funny> usage. > It's > not the WORD it is the context. eg > > What you seek is http://here where it says bla, also http://there where they > say blabla and a whole pile at http://overthere but you'll need to RFM.
Right! Thats an entirely appropriate use of RTFM, and one few if any users would have a problem with. The problem I have with these mega threads is well described in the link to the mailing thread patterns blog post of Joey Hess's, and I hope that everyone in this thread will read it :). And then categorise the posters in this thread and other recent mega ones according to its heuristics ;). Which is enough for me on this thread. Rob -- GPG key available at: <http://www.robertcollins.net/keys.txt>.
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