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On Tuesday 04 April 2006 04:28, Stephen P. Becker wrote: |
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> Kari Hazzard wrote: |
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> > This is Gentoo. We have a reputation of good community support to |
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> > maintain here. You're not helping that reputation by being mean to people |
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> > who ask legitimate questions. The issue that the question may have been |
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> > sent to the wrong list is irrelevant. RTFM is never the right answer to a |
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> > question. |
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> I fail to see how pointing out a post was offtopic is mean. Rather, it |
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> will save that individual (and hopefully others) from making the same |
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> mistake in the future. |
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> Also, RTFM is absolutely the right answer more often than not. |
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> Otherwise, what is the point of having TFM in the first place? The |
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> amusement of those who spent a lot of time and effort writing it? |
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Don't reply with RTFM, but with something like: |
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Hi sender, |
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This is explained far better than I could do here in |
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http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/foobar.xml |
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If you have further questions, feel free to ask. |
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Regards, |
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your friendly gentoo developer. |
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Paul |
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Paul de Vrieze |
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Gentoo Developer |
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Mail: pauldv@g.o |
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Homepage: http://www.devrieze.net |
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