Date: Wed, 24 Jun 1998 23:04:03 +0100 From: Nik Clayton <nik@nothing-going-on.demon.co.uk> To: Tim Gerchmez <fewtch@serv.net>, David Wolfskill <dhw@whistle.com> Cc: freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Newbies - "Handle me with care?" Message-ID: <19980624230403.42937@nothing-going-on.org> In-Reply-To: <3.0.5.32.19980623182539.007faa50@mx.serv.net>; from Tim Gerchmez on Tue, Jun 23, 1998 at 06:25:39PM -0700 References: <199806221826.LAA29227@pau-amma.whistle.com> <3.0.5.32.19980623182539.007faa50@mx.serv.net>
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On Tue, Jun 23, 1998 at 06:25:39PM -0700, Tim Gerchmez wrote: > Sure, but a newbie won't likely be doing anything terribly important with > their system and won't likely be installing BSD for others who need solid > systems... so why be methodical? Because if that newbie runs into problems (can't start ppp, has disklabel trashed, removes something important from /usr/lib, or whatever) and mails to -questions asking for help, they're far more likely to get useful help if they reliably tell others what they did. N -- Work: nik@iii.co.uk | FreeBSD + Perl + Apache Rest: nik@nothing-going-on.demon.co.uk | Remind me again why we need Play: nik@freebsd.org | Microsoft? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message
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