RTFM means "Read the friggin' manual". It is used in almost any place where a person is asking a question when they could have read a document instead. The idea is that nobody has extra time sitting around to waste re-explaining things that have been explained perfectly well elsewhere.
In your case, I think what you ought to read is the manual of mailing list etiquette. At first I thought you were a joker or someone who found it amusing to post the same questions again and again with strange exclamation points (!!!!) and colloquialisms such as "Capiche". I thought you were being rude, but I think now I realize that you just don't know any better.
You are getting fewer answers every day because more and more people have set up their email clients to filter out your posts. It has become tiresome to read the same questions again and again, when others have pointed you to perfectly fine tutorials explaining how to go about it. If these tutorials are not a good enough explanation, then perhaps you ought to step down a notch to something more basic.
Configuring Tomcat and writing JSP/servlet webapps is not easy, and requires that you understand the fundamentals of the Java language. There are dozens of free books with thousands of pages dedicated to this topic, a good one is "Thinking in Java" at http://www.mindview.net/ . A specialized mailing list like this one is dedicated to answering questions and discussing issues surrounding Tomcat, not explaining the syntax of a switch statement. Don't take that as an insult, I'm just explaining how it is. Sun offers an excellent forum for programmers who are new to Java at http://forum.java.sun.com/forum.jsp?forum=54 .
But the problem at hand isn't even really whether or not this is the appropriate mailing list for you. You are not getting much help because you simply do not know the protocol for asking questions on a mailing list. It is not appropriate to discuss anything but Tomcat, or Tomcat-related issues on this list. Not switch statements. Not personal issues regarding your social development. People will forgive you if you make a mistake in this regard once in a while. But this has become a daily affair.
I am going to give you one last hyperlink, and I really hope that you click it and read the web page it takes you to. Others have already given you this, and I can only assume that you haven't found time to read it yet. But please read this document. It will take you all of fifteen minutes. If you don't, or if you read it but choose not to listen, then no one on any mailing list is going to help you, as more and more people tune you out with email filters.
The document is called "How to Ask Questions the Smart Way", and is available at http://catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html . It is the "friggin' manual" for all mailing lists. RTFM.
Erik
Steve Burrus wrote:
Matthew, please forgive my *dumb naivety*, but what does RTFM mean,i.e., what does it stand for exactly anyway? I hope that this doesn't sound like some kind of a "rant" [again], but it seems like for a long time now people in this newsgroup have "ragging" on me! Capiche?!
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