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Date:      Wed, 21 Nov 2001 18:57:51 +0000
From:      Paul Robinson <paul@akita.co.uk>
To:        Technical Information <tech_info@threespace.com>, FreeBSD Chat <chat@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: RTFM: it works!!
Message-ID:  <01112118575108.00356@stinky.akitanet.co.uk>
In-Reply-To: <4.3.2.7.2.20011118142138.0156e090@threespace.com>
References:  <4.3.2.7.2.20011118142138.0156e090@threespace.com>

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On Sunday 18 November 2001  7:43 pm, Technical Information wrote:

> Sometimes, R'ing the FM is hindered by one's inability to know where to
> find the FM.  Particularly when dealing with Open Source projects, you
> always get the sense that there may be scads of documentation out there,
> but where do you find it?  It ain't usually on the shelves at your local

Which is why when asked for help, even if I know the answer, I'll take the 
person through finding out for themselves. Through that, they get to see how 
to find stuff from mailing lists and google, how to use man(1), how to dig 
through the handbook. After all that, they can normally find out in the 
future what they need to know. If they come and ask me, I'll ask them what 
their digging around came up with - if nothing, chances are, it doesn't 
exist, or they are being lazy.

All this whining - no wonder nobody of a non-tech nature wants to come and 
join the fun. :-)

-- 
Paul Robinson

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