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From: kline@tera.com (Gary Kline)
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In-Reply-To: <199512291618.IAA02715@corbin.Root.COM> from "David Greenman" at Dec 29, 95 08:18:19 am
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According to David Greenman:
> 
> 
>    I'd like to second this notion. The -questions mailing list has become very
> hostile recently to new users, and this is exactly what *should not* happen.
> The -questions mailing list was designed and created specifically for new
> users who have "new user" questions. If you are on this list and have a low
> threshold for these types of questions, please do all of us (and most
> importantly our new users) a favor and either unsubscribe or answer the
> questions politely and with high "new user" tolerance. We have many other
> mailing lists which are not new-user oriented (such as -hackers, -current,
> -bugs, etc) where your energy can be much better spent.
> 
> -DG
> 
> David Greenman
> Core Team/Principal Architect, The FreeBSD Project
> 

	Well said.  

	void * soapbox()
	{
	   ``Old-timers'' should have patience, certainly, and so
	   should all the newcomers to this list; to the Project
	   as a whole.  If someone answers my questions brusquely
	   I consider the source rather than explode.   I've 
	   been into uNix going on 20 years--in fact at Berkeley
	   where this began.  But I've been away in System5-land 
	   for so long that the BSD model is a whole new ballgame.
	   It's quite a (re-)learning curve.

	   The whole movement is valid: *BSD, Linux, GNU, the Andrew
	   Project, Project Gutenberg, and vastly more.  If the
	   whole globe got along as well as most of the net does,
	   most problems would disappear.  Maybe after a few hundred
	   more millennia of evolution... .  

	   Meanwhile, people, remember the hallmarks of cooperation:
	   patience, tolerance, kindness.

	}

	gary kline