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. -- Pascal Chong email: chongym@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx web: http://cymulacrum.net pgp: http://cymulacrum.net/pgp/cymulacrum.asc "La science ne connaît pas de frontière parce que la connaissance appartient à l’humanité. et que c’est la flamme qui illumine le monde." -- Louis Pasteur
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