Date: Thu, 28 Feb 2002 06:05:27 +0200 From: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr> To: Gerardo Paredes <gerardo_enrique_paredes@hotmail.com> Cc: djohnson@acuson.com, freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD Message-ID: <20020228040527.GB47751@hades.hell.gr> In-Reply-To: <F83B2b0s065uZeGfFjw0000a963@hotmail.com> References: <F83B2b0s065uZeGfFjw0000a963@hotmail.com>
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On 2002-02-27 20:16, Gerardo Paredes wrote:
> by the way RTFM in BSD stands for Read The Fine Manual, but RTFH would be
> better (Read The hyperFine Handbook).
>
> Mr Arrogant, you are right, newbies got to learn the Fine Handbook before
> they ask lame questions.
I can't agree more...
I had a similar conversation with a Canadian friend, last night. He was
asking simple questions, in IRC. Questions that ranged from "where are the
settings for my hostname" to "I managed to mess my rc.conf, now what?".
After about 10-15 minutes of being asked things that were clearly
frequently asked newbie questions, and trying my best to answer, and still
chat with those I was on IRC for, I used the following:
/msg <nick> OK, about 100% of what you asked are things that the
documentation already describes. Don't msg me again, until you
can provide sufficient proof that you have actually read (at
least) the Handbook and the FAQ.
The reply to the next msg which was a question too, was a bit worse:
/msg <nick> Ignore set.
Yes, I know that being a newbie on an operating system like FreeBSD, can be
intimidating, annoying, hard to cope with. But I can't really tolerate the
flood of questions in real time that IRC users are usually keen to ask,
especially if these same questions are answered in dozens of places on
FreeBSD.org and other sites and I have already provided the relevant
pointers to the documentation.
Call me arrogant if you wish, but when I'm on IRC, more often than not, I'm
there to chat with friends. Spending 200% of my IRC time to answer things
that are already answered in dozens of places, seems like a total waste of
my time. And it's not like I have nine more lives to live :-P
Giorgos Keramidas FreeBSD Documentation Project
keramida@{freebsd.org,ceid.upatras.gr} http://www.FreeBSD.org/docproj/
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