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Re: Beginner question



On Wed, 25 Feb 2004 12:22:57 -0500
Richard Hoskins <detach@adelphia.net> wrote:
>
> Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org> writes:
> 
> > There was a good rebuttal of this recently, observing "well, who
> > would hang out on this newbie list to help them?". I know I wouldn't
> > - I can barely cope with debian-user as it is.
> 
> All we would need is a auto-responder that would randomly choose some
> variant of "That's a stupid question.", "Don't complain, it's free.",
> or "Use windows if you don't like it."  I'm not sure how we could
> insert realistic grammar and spelling errors, but Emacs has
> studlify-region, which would give it a true weenie feeling.

I'm confused by this post.  Maybe you're just goofing and my humor
detector is not working well today, but are you suggesting that
that's typical of how people new to linux who come here and ask
questions are treated?

-c

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