On Fri, 2005-08-05 at 07:33 +0100, poncenby wrote: > > May I suggest some tolerance(doesn't have to be sincere) for people > who are simply either too busy or too lazy to read man pages in their > entirety. or just simply ignore the email. surely certain people on > this list (theo - that's you!) don't actually enjoy patronising their > loyal userbase?
You should be reading the man page first, then asking questions on list (or elsewhere, e.g. IRC), not the other way around. And ignoring these sorts of e-mails isn't an option, as people need to know the expected protocol is to read the man page first. Start out with the goal of making an operating system possible to use without reading documentation, and you wind up with something like Microsoft Windows (however, even Microsoft must document a lot of things, even if it is only available in electronic form). I'm sure you've either already been down that road, or have no desire to go down it. The people that WTFM intend for you to RTFM. -- Shawn K. Quinn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
