Actually, your right..._if_ we're talking about newbies. After I
posted, I realized that I should have mentioned something about this
list being a LUG list that's supposed to be friendly to newbies.
I (and the overwhelming majority of the users on this list) have no
problem giving newbies extra slack.
The trouble is, if you're running a LUG yourself, you're expected to
understand basic netiquette concepts such as "Don't ask questions on lists
without doing a minimum of 5 to 10 minutes of googling beforehand."
Would you consider it acceptable for a 5 year old to demand Gerber(TM)
and only Gerber(TM) rather than real food? Of course not. After you've
been around long enough to understand basic netiquette you're expected to
follow it as well.
Thus spake btt on the 10 day of the 01 month in the year 2003:
> On Fri, Jan 10, 2003 at 02:26:08PM -0500, Matthew Moen wrote:
> >
> > Geeks tend to get insulted when people ask them to do their menial work.
> > Geeks like challenges, not "I couldn't be bothered spending 5-15 minutes
> > finding this myself, so...could you do it for me?" Perhaps that's not
> > the case here, but your message's content certainly points toward that
> > direction.
>
> I don't think people should have to go through all that google,
> freshmeat, etc. rigor just to ask a question on a LUG email
> list. IMHO, that expectation is kinda newbie-hostile.
-- Matthew Moen
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