Hi Barry,
We're not all the same here. There are different people on this list,
like everywhere: Some are strange guys that I simply ignore, many others
here helped me a lot.
I find it a bit boring here sometimes, that's true: Our sense of humour
might be a bit underdeveloped here, and we have here some very few guys
who, as it seems, do not like it very much if people make jokes on linux
and those using this OS: I simply ignore these people, and I'll be
making my stupid jokes on me, linux, its users and the rest of the world
like I always did ... :)
Another important point: For some of us --and I'm one of them -- English
is not the primary language: That's perhaps why the wording of our mails
sometimes appears to be very terse and "frozen" -- might be very well
it's not much fun to read our mails ...
On Tue, 2003-12-02 at 23:14, Barry Hawkins wrote:
To the list at large,
I have been working on getting a Debian install up on my system for ~
2 weeks now, and I find myself dreading when I have to post a question,
because getting an answer on these lists can be pretty daunting. When
you do get an answer, it is often a sparse reply indicating "you're not
doing it right" or "you're using the wrong thing". Well - yeah, I
guess so, or I wouldn't be having the problems I am having.
> Seriously, folks, when you have new folks coming to a list, it's