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Subject: Re: A case of FreeBSD users shooting all FreeBSD users in the foot?
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Jonathan wrote:

>On Friday 10 October 2003 11:46 pm, Peter Kieser wrote:
>  
>
>>Actually.. in general, it seems to usually be the Linux users that have the
>>"RTFM" approach, other then us ourselves. We have an awesome handbook to
>>RTFM to, compared to anything that is available for Linux.
>>    
>>
>
> The "If you ask advice, you'll get polite versions of 'RTFM' mostly." may 
>very well come from the #freebsd irc channel, on freenode.net. I have gone in 
>there once or twice and witnessed  really rude behavior. #freebsd is an 
>excellent reason not to use FreeBSD. I would not dare ask a question there; I 
>think it's run by professional (l337) sysadmin guys who are into sadism.
>

Possible.  Several posters on that forum noted that no
one named Ed <?> had ever posted to questions@.....

Kevin Kinsey
DaleCo, S.P.