> RTFM means "Read the friggin' manual". It is used in almost any place
My oh my..., I thought it means "Read The Fine Manual"......., man I was mislead.... ----- Original Message ----- From: "Erik Price" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Tomcat Users List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, February 12, 2003 7:25 AM Subject: Re: MY ATTITUDE > Hi Steve, > > 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?! > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
