From owner-freebsd-chat Wed Nov 21 10:57:57 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from stinky.akitanet.co.uk (akita-14.dsl.easynet.co.uk [217.206.114.14]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E568337B405 for ; Wed, 21 Nov 2001 10:57:53 -0800 (PST) Received: (from paul@localhost) by stinky.akitanet.co.uk (8.11.3/8.11.3) id fALIvqN00768; Wed, 21 Nov 2001 18:57:52 GMT (envelope-from paul) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" From: Paul Robinson To: Technical Information , FreeBSD Chat Subject: Re: RTFM: it works!! Date: Wed, 21 Nov 2001 18:57:51 +0000 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.2] References: <4.3.2.7.2.20011118142138.0156e090@threespace.com> In-Reply-To: <4.3.2.7.2.20011118142138.0156e090@threespace.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <01112118575108.00356@stinky.akitanet.co.uk> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Sunday 18 November 2001 7:43 pm, Technical Information wrote: > Sometimes, R'ing the FM is hindered by one's inability to know where to > find the FM. Particularly when dealing with Open Source projects, you > always get the sense that there may be scads of documentation out there, > but where do you find it? It ain't usually on the shelves at your local Which is why when asked for help, even if I know the answer, I'll take the person through finding out for themselves. Through that, they get to see how to find stuff from mailing lists and google, how to use man(1), how to dig through the handbook. After all that, they can normally find out in the future what they need to know. If they come and ask me, I'll ask them what their digging around came up with - if nothing, chances are, it doesn't exist, or they are being lazy. All this whining - no wonder nobody of a non-tech nature wants to come and join the fun. :-) -- Paul Robinson To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message