Agreed, one and all. I only meant to stress being polite when you ask
people not to post off-topic without notice -- unless they *KEEP* doing
it There are some who require rudeness, sadly enough.
I just meant that if you're going to bother to respond, let the person
know what they did wrong,
> But if we're talking advocacy, I must point out that as a newbie, my
> biggest problem was finding out where to look to *find* the manual.
> Also, when I was trying to get this system working ~now~, (the
> "out-of-the-box" problem we keep seeing), it was frequently important
> that I get answers
On Wed, 6 Dec 2000, Paul wrote:
> But if we're talking advocacy, I must point out that as a newbie, my
> biggest problem was finding out where to look to *find* the manual.
> Also, when I was trying to get this system working ~now~, (the
> "out-of-the-box" problem we keep seeing), it was frequent
While we're on the topic of advocacy, I'd like to briefly mention the
RTFM reflex.
Most of the people working on these projects are *working*. They have
no time to coddle stupid questions from newbies who didn't *bother* to
RTFM. I do understand that, and I sympathize.
But if we're talking advoc