On Monday 19 February 2007 09:26, Hans du Plooy wrote: > > Then that's what you say at the beginning of your email. :) > > > > These two quotes are guaranteed to garner sympathy: > > "I'm a noob and I don't know enough to know where to begin > > to look." > > "Internet access is flaky, slow and expensive." > > Differs from list to list, I guess. In the days when I was still > learning Red Hat, just being a noob meant you were flamed, > regardless. The unwritten rule regarding noobs seemed to be: > > Flame > Flame > Flame > Read his question > Flame > If he's still on the list, tell him to RTFM (even if he already has) > Flame some more
I found that to be the case with most Linux groups as recently as 2000 to about 2002. Somewhere around 2001 I started using Mandrake, found it did what I needed, had an all-in-one control center I could use while learning how to edit all the separate config files, and the people there actually helped newbies (sorry, I just can't get used to "noob" it just sounds so dorky). I spent a few years on Mandrake and moved to Libranet, but was driven away by some policies on their mailing list. By then Sarge was out and I had learned enough to easily handle Debian -- and the nasty attitude of "You're new, and I'm 10x more intelligent than you, so I want to be a brain bully, so flame, flame, flame, rtfm, flame" was gone by then. Hal -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
