coming from the openbsd community, I know just too well that people should read the documentation before asking for something in the mailing list. These guys here are being nice to you, on misc@ they would have killed you and offered you to an evil god on a satanic ritual :D (just talking in jest)
But sometimes, even though there is a fine manual, people like me, whose mother tongue is not English, find it difficult to find a specific keyword. I am sure there are translations of the manual to other languages, but in this IT world the translations are usually obsolete and/or uncompleted. My experience is that it does not generally pay off to look into the translation and, if so, then you are not learning... to fish, which in this case means that you are not learning the tech English you'll need again at some point. In any case, what I mean is that I try to understand the English manual, but sometimes find it difficult to look for the information, because a specific keyword is needed... then asking in the mailing list (as I did yesterday) is the only left option. I ask for apologies in advance, indeed! Also, usually, I do only need the keyword. Yesterday I found the relevant part of the manual after the 1st answer. Of course, if your mother tongue is English, the above does not apply... anyway... take it easy... and thanks for helping! Pau 2008/9/23 bill lam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Mon, 22 Sep 2008, Sahil Tandon wrote: > >> bill lam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> > On Mon, 22 Sep 2008, Patrick Shanahan wrote: >> > > > If you do not care to help, there are other more helpful people. >> > > >> > > as you wish. >> > >> > Good! Please just ignore and do not response future mails from me. >> >> It is not in your best interest to antagonize Patrick and other helpful >> members of the mutt community. He *was* trying to help you. Have you >> ever chanced upon the phrase: >> >> “Give a man a fish, he’ll eat for a day. Teach a man to fish, and he’ll >> eat for a lifetime.†> > "Teach a man to fish" is not *just* tell him to rtfm. > > When I tell others to rtfm, I will either give the specific answer first, > or tell him to read page.### or search for the keyword blahblah. > > -- > regards, > ==================================================== > GPG key 1024D/4434BAB3 2008-08-24 > gpg --keyserver subkeys.pgp.net --recv-keys 4434BAB3 >
