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Date:      Thu, 23 Jun 2005 21:36:22 +0200
From:      des@des.no (=?iso-8859-1?q?Dag-Erling_Sm=F8rgrav?=)
To:        "Andrew L. Gould" <algould@datawok.com>
Cc:        Johnson David <davidjohnson@siemens.com>, freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org, 'cali' <calculus@softhome.net>
Subject:   Re: Explaining FreeBSD features
Message-ID:  <86is04lvbd.fsf@xps.des.no>
In-Reply-To: <200506231348.06197.algould@datawok.com> (Andrew L. Gould's message of "Thu, 23 Jun 2005 13:48:06 -0500")
References:  <6F2F8FD3FBCF7A489CB18912A4807EBA0E0866@mvwcim1a.acuson.com> <200506231348.06197.algould@datawok.com>

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"Andrew L. Gould" <algould@datawok.com> writes:
> On Thursday 23 June 2005 12:16 pm, Johnson David wrote:
> > If by "works", you mean people leave the community, then you are
> > correct. We all know what "F" in "RTFM" means. While we may not say
> > it with those words anymore, we still often say it with the same
> > abusive attitude. It's far more productive to say "RTM" than "RTFM".
> I have, on occasion, used "RTFM", ignoring the "F"; but not thinking
> about whether the reader would ignore it as well -- poor form on my
> part.  I will certainly drop the "F" in the future.

Why?  Everybody knows the F stands for Fine :)

DES
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Dag-Erling Sm=F8rgrav - des@des.no




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