Ron Johnson wrote: > On Mon, 2005-01-10 at 11:55 +1100, Sam Watkins wrote: > >>On Sun, Jan 09, 2005 at 04:17:14PM -0500, Glenn Maynard wrote: > > [snip] > >>I ask people to please make a great effort to be polite and >>"professional" in representing Debian. Please don't tell newbies to go >>RTFM > > > Sure you should. > > I remember, though, when I was a newbie and didn't know which > manpage to read. So, I try to point which FM to read. You shouldn't say 'RTFM' though, 'this is already documented here: <...>, why don't you try reading that first?' might work better. >> or throw ESR's "smart-questions" FAQ at them, please don't get > > > The "smart-questions" FAQ was written for a reason. > > When someone asks a particularly general question and expects a > detailed answer, he needs to be sent to the FAQ. I think you're right here, but a short explanation would be nicer than just throwing the link at them. For example telling them what they did wrong and not just 'read this first: <...>'. -- -----BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK----- Version: 3.1 GAT/CM$/CS>$/CC/IT$/M/S/O/U dpu s+:++ !a C++$>C+++$ UB+++>++++$L++++$*-- P+>++$ L+++(++++)$ E-(---) W+++>$ N(+) o? K- w--(---) O? M V? PS++@ PE-@ Y+@ PGP++(+++)>$ t? 5? X? R tv--(-) b++(+++)@ DI? D? G e->++++ h* r? z* ------END GEEK CODE BLOCK------ David Mandelberg mandelbergd@eth0.is-a-geek.org
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