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Date:      Sun, 12 Jul 1998 18:18:55 +0100
From:      NOC-GFX <sysadmin@mfn.org>
To:        "sysadmin@mfn.org" <sysadmin@mfn.org>, "'Thomas Dean'" <tomdean@ix.netcom.com>
Cc:        "questions@freebsd.org" <questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   RE: Testing Connectivity, Please IGNORE
Message-ID:  <01BDADC1.88633BA0@noc.mfn.org>

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Consider this:  

	We have already traded mails privately on the RTFM thing, but, since
you want it to be public, here goes.

   This list is "Freebsd-QUESTIONS".  Get it? People *ASK QUESTIONS*
here.  That why it's *called* questions.  Your fixed response of "Read the
Handbook, Part X, Chapter Y, Subsection Z, Paragraph Z.xyz" does NOT
provide everything that is needed when someone asks a question here.

   People are NOT always going to read the manual.  Sometimes they read
it, but don't see it, even if it's there.   Maybe it's there, but they don't know 
*where* to look for it.  This is forum of interactive "SUPPORT".  *NOT* a
self-appointed "Pompous Guardian of the Manual" glee club.  If you don't
like the fact that people ask questions which have answers somewhere
else, then you should NOT follow -questions! 

   A Friendly Answer will do more than a Technically-Correct one. 

   Now, to repeat what I said earlier, *off-list*:

	Stick It.

J.A. Terranson
sysadmin@mfn.org

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From: 	Thomas Dean
Sent: 	Sunday, July 12, 1998 6:59 PM
To: 	sysadmin@mfn.org
Cc: 	questions@freebsd.org
Subject: 	Re: Testing Connectivity, Please IGNORE

Obviously, someone cannot read the manual.

> From: NOC-GFX <sysadmin@mfn.org>
> Date: Sun, 12 Jul 1998 17:45:33 +0100
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> Stick your RTFM...
> 
> ----------
> From: 	Thomas Dean
> Sent: 	Sunday, July 12, 1998 6:08 PM
> To: 	sysadmin@mfn.org
> Cc: 	freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
> Subject: 	Re: Testing Connectivity, Please IGNORE
> 
> > Sorry, but I *had* to use -questions.  For some reason I had not received
>                ^^^^^
> READ THE HANDBOOK at www.freebsd.org/handbook, part 5, section 27.1,
> sub-section 27.1.2.
> 
> Look at the paragraph about majordomo help.  After you get help from
> majordomo, you will understand why you did not need to send test
> messages to -questions.
> 
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