On Mon, 22 Sep 2008, Sahil Tandon wrote:

> bill lam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 
> > On Mon, 22 Sep 2008, Patrick Shanahan wrote:
> > > > If you do not care to help, there are other more helpful people.
> > > 
> > > as you wish.
> > 
> > Good! Please just ignore and do not response future mails from me.
> 
> It is not in your best interest to antagonize Patrick and other helpful
> members of the mutt community.  He *was* trying to help you.  Have you
> ever chanced upon the phrase:
> 
> “Give a man a fish, he’ll eat for a day. Teach a man to fish, and he’ll
> eat for a lifetime.”

"Teach a man to fish" is not *just* tell him to rtfm.

When I tell others to rtfm, I will either give the specific answer first,
or tell him to read page.### or search for the keyword blahblah.

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