Re: Virus incident
On Friday 23 November 2001 04:37, Gary Turner wrote:
> I use Agent Forte on an M$ machine. My Linux box is not online yet
> because I don't yet have a second NIC, nor do I understand IP masking
> or a lot of other things. I have asked questions recently in this
> forum. They were, I believe, 'decent.' I received courteous,
> helpful, and timely responses. I have even been able to post the
> occasional answer to other's queries, all from an M$ machine.
>
> Other than BASIC and ASM stuff on TRS-80s a long time ago, I've been
> a Win3/9x appliance operator. I chose Debian for my Linux distr
> because it is down and dirty and not hidden by a UI that would slow
> the learning process. But choosing Debian did not suddenly make me
> proficient in the argot, nor did it steep me in the Unix/Linux
> culture. Often it's not that I don't RTFM, but that I don't know
> which FM to effingR.
I've been using this list for three months now and one good sign I've
noticed is the amount of Three Message Threads (or TMTs to coin a TLA;)
This is where someone posts a query, the second message gives an answer
and the third message is the original inquirer saying 'Thanks very
much.' I've been the grateful beneficiary on at least a couple of
occasions where I've been stuck in one of those frustrating and
annoying 'I know one can do this but where exactly do I start looking
..." situations.
Maybe the relative concentration of TMTs would be good measure of the
health of a list. The only trouble with measuring them, of course, is
how does one cope with four, five and more TMTs where more than one
person weighs in with a similar reply?
Nigel
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Nigel Pauli - I.T. Manager
St. John's School, Northwood, U.K.
http://www.st-johns.org.uk/
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