Re: <OT> Re: newcomers

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On Mon, 2006-08-14 at 22:57 -0400, Ric Moore wrote:
> This is a by far a more generous, tolerant and effective list than you will find
> anywhere

I agree with you 100%, Ric! I remember when I first started out in Linux
in 1997: I got roasted on the Slackware newsgroup for asking a question
about DNS, and was told to RTFM, and a lot of people just jumped in and
decided to have a go at me. Well, needless to say, that scared me off
Linux for a while. 

On this list, a lot of newbie questions get asked, and some in a rather
rude way -- yet they also get answers, and frequently competent answers
from knowledgeable people. If my start in Linux was on this list, I
would have had a smoother and easier time, though it probably would have
done nothing but preserve an attitude of entitlement (i.e. the attitude
that says: "if these people really believed in Linux, they would teach
and hand-hold me, or else the product is just not worth my time, and
I'll go back to Microsoft")

RTFM is a good thing. It was only after reading the book by Cricket Liu
and Paul Albitz, and the howto by Nicolas Langfeldt that I finally
learned to setup primary, secondary and caching DNS servers.

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