Date: Sat, 03 Apr 1999 01:17:37 -0800 From: Darren Pilgrim <dpilgrim@uswest.net> To: Sue Blake <sue@welearn.com.au> Cc: George Halek <bsdlist@cr343877-a.wlfdle1.on.wave.home.com>, newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: handling posting errors [was: Disk geometry question.] Message-ID: <3705DCB1.640B948D@uswest.net> References: <Pine.BSF.3.96.990402112542.281B-100000@cr343877-a.wlfdle1.on.wave.home.com> <37055859.E945BB40@uswest.net> <19990403151145.59606@welearn.com.au> <3705C8A9.747F784D@uswest.net> <19990403185229.63533@welearn.com.au>
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Sue Blake wrote: > If you are able and willing to answer support questions, your interest > in newbies will be most valuable in freebsd-questions. We need more > newbies to be seen asking questions there and to be seen getting > answers, since it is supposed to support the _whole_ user community. I do answer questions in -questions, and I often answer the ones that no one else seems willing to answer because they're considered "stupid newbie questions" by people who seem to have forgotten what it's like to be a newbie. My day job involves helping people solve problems and find answers and every day I hear them ask me what I used to ask, see them have trouble with things I used to worry over. I see myself in them and for that reason I take the time to help them. I just wish the tribal elders would clue into the fact that they're denying others the things that they take for granted. > If you feel sufficiently familiar with the list charters to gently guide > newbies to the appropriate use of the lists, don't let anyone make you > feel bad because of _their_ misunderstandings. But I'm human, not a sterile man page or a printed manual, it hurts everytime I get shot down for trying to help out. -- dpilgrim@uswest.net /\ / __ Our lies are merely the gryph@mindless.com / \/OC/URNE truth of another world ICQ: 29880099 Death is not a kill -9, just a DALnet: anim0s make world and shutdown -r now PGPKey available To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message
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