2009/6/8 Patrick O'Callaghan <pocallaghan@xxxxxxxxx>: > On Mon, 2009-06-08 at 11:19 -0700, Wolfgang S. Rupprecht wrote: >> Kevin Kofler <kevin.kofler@xxxxxxxxx> writes: >> > These sound like homework questions the OP's asking us to answer to avoid >> > doing the research. >> >> My money is on the bet that he is writing a Psychology paper to see how >> different mailing lists respond to a new list member asking a string of >> simplistic questions. "How do I use ssh" was a classic. Someone >> pointed him to the man pages and he came back and reiterated he needed a >> simpler explanation. Here is what google dug up for him. This is a >> long trend. >> >> http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&client=firefox-a&rls=org.mozilla%3Aen-US%3Aofficial&hs=X5O&q=%3Cgmspro%40yahoo.com%3E&btnG=Search&aq=f&oq=&aqi= > > Either that or he hasn't quite grasped the concept of a manual. > > Seriously, someone asking "how do I use ssh?" rather than "I tried to do > foo with ssh and I can't get it to work" doesn't merit the handholding > that's being going on here. There are plenty of people on this list > willing to give their time and expertise to helping newbies, but the > newbie can't expect to be spoonfed. Learning to help yourself is an > essential step on the road to hacker nirvana. Eric S Raymond has a page on this very topic: http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html (with apologies to John Summerfield from the RHEL list who's signature I ripped this from) -- Sam -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
