<OT> Re: newcomers

Michael Hennebry hennebry at web.cs.ndsu.nodak.edu
Tue Aug 15 14:35:20 UTC 2006


On Tue, 15 Aug 2006, Chong Yu Meng wrote:

> 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

Even if appropriate, RTFM need only be uttered once per question,
though parallel responses might cause others.
Sometimes a correct response to RTFM is "Where is TFM?".

> 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.

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Mike   hennebry at web.cs.ndsu.NoDak.edu
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                                                      --  Daniel Jackson




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