Ubuntu user's report

[Collins Richey]

On Sun, 30 Jan 2005 00:44:42 -0500 (EST), A. Khattri <ajai at bway.net> wrote:
> On Sat, 29 Jan 2005, Ken Moffat wrote:
> 
> > I seem to remember those days. I had was red faced many times, both from
> > embarrassment and from anger. Rudeness has become more the exception
> > than the rule of late, but it was a rough road back then. One thing it
> > did do was force the initiative on the user to do his homework before
> > posting. Not alltogether bad, I guess. (eh, llama?)
> 
> I guess Google must be some "advanced tool" and "very hard" to use.
> 

No it's not, but not everyone who signs on to this list is an admin or
debugger by nature, and I see nothing wrong with giving the less
skilled a few direct pointers along with the pointers to doco and
Google, and the less pointed and sarcastic the pointers are the
better. You catch more flies with honey than vinegar.

-- 
 Collins