John Scroggins writes: > > the discussion on help for novice users of Debian is of great importance > to me, as I am a > "that person" .....
John, everyone has to start somewhere 8-) > i have monitored this user list and have to say there IS a lot of > assistance out there ....i have well over 900 pieces of mail in my mail > folder. This is not a list which is used time to time for high level Well, do like I've done... Create a subdirectory in your home directory, then copy all revelent mail into catagories as you read the questions and then the authoritive answer (like all PPP questions into a PPP folder like ppp.txt). Then save the folder in your new directory and "gzip" them to save on space. When you have a problem in an area, simply "cd" to the directory and use "git" to research the folders. Because you pre-sorted the messages, you'll find searching them to be quick. Try saving info that you might not be currently interested in. Further down the road, you may find (like I have) that the info is very handy. [snip] > to my local DynamIP site..(links my static IP address to my dynamic isp > connection) I needed a script to help me do that ..no one responded to > the question.. i was not offended .. i just kept looking .. i found it > not on the list,but elsewhere ... yes there may be frustrated new users > who are I've seen messages about that particular subject. You probably will find them in the debian-user-digest archive. Lately, I've started a folder for web sites pertaining to Debian/Linux. It'll be interesting to see if those sites are still around in 6 months.. 8-) -- -= Sent by Debian 1.3 Linux =- Thomas Kocourek KD4CIK - member of ARRL @[EMAIL PROTECTED]@westgac3.dragon.com Remove @_@ for correct Email address --... ...-- ... -.. . -.- -.. ....- -.-. .. -.- -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .