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From: Jamie Bowden <ragnar@sysabend.org>
To: Dan Langille <dan@langille.org>
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On Fri, 5 Mar 2004, Dan Langille wrote:

> On Fri, 5 Mar 2004, Avleen Vig wrote:

> > All the have to do is look at the handbook. And if they can't find the
> > link on the *front page* of freebsd.org, under the clearly labelled
> > catagory of "Support", then there is very little we can or should do
> > to help them. After a point, enough is enough. If the user isn't
> > prepared to educate themselves, your attempts will ultimately fail.

> *That* explanation is vast difference to saying they have to read man
> pcm(4).  The difference is sigficicant.

It also presumes the end user has net access, which is not a given.

Jamie Bowden

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