On Wed, 2007-07-04 at 09:37 -0400, Eric wrote: > I'm also well aware that it's some kind of a cultural requirement on the > Internet that you're not allowed to just give a straight answer to a > question that YOU consider basic or a FAQ, you're required to add some ad > hominem seasoning to it. It has been that way since the heyday of Fidonet > and RIME and I guess it'll never change. Yes, it's required. Not quite like a uni hazing, but it goes with the territory. The more the original poster could have easily found it out for themselves, but took the difficult path, the more ribbing involved. My ribbing was mild, compared to some of the flaming you could have seen from some people. I haven't, yet, told anyone on a public mailing list to RTFM, but I've come close. ;-) Outside of the list I had a regular contact who'd ask me all sorts of silly questions, to which I kept on replying "read the manual." Eventually she started doing so *before* asking me to clarify something. But being serious, you must go out of your way to avoid reading internet news/propaganda/gossip to have not seen FOSS bandied about. It's the current buzzword. -- (This box runs FC5, my others run FC4 & FC6, in case that's important to the thread.) Don't send private replies to my address, the mailbox is ignored. I read messages from the public lists.
