From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Aug 28 9:52:29 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from richardson.apana.org.au (richardson.apana.org.au [203.3.126.216]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id E3EF815543 for ; Sat, 28 Aug 1999 09:52:18 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from young@richardson.apana.org.au) Received: from jdy [203.3.126.129] by richardson.apana.org.au [203.3.126.216] with SMTP (MDaemon.v2.7.SP4.T) for ; Sat, 28 Aug 1999 16:26:15 +1000 Message-ID: <004e01bef11e$cbf50d20$857e03cb@jdy> From: "Young" To: "Cillian Sharkey" Cc: Subject: Re: adopt a newbie program Date: Sat, 28 Aug 1999 16:30:16 +1000 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 4.72.3110.1 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.72.3110.3 X-MDaemon-Deliver-To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Return-Path: young@richardson.apana.org.au Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG >I've posted answers to people's questions here before, and more >often than not, I simply reply back with read such-and-such >a page of the FAQ/handbook etc.. > Exactly what happens all too often .... however did you ever stop to think that while MAN's & HOWTO's might well be a valuable memory jogger for people that have had five or more years experience and feel comfortable with the terminology, 99% of the verbiage in most of the MAN's & HOWTO's is irrelevant to newbies. Who wants (or needs) to know there are 4,395 different switches when all you were looking for is something as basic as how one copies a file from here to there ?? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message