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[Rick Moen]

Quoting Fiona the Hat (alhambra at zork.net):

> I digress. If it was me, I probably would probably turn straight to the
> people who are sick of hearing from newbies. If there ARE people who are
> willing to act as saints, I'm grateful. I really am.

Again (and you almost certainly _did_ get this point earlier), it's _not_ 
about being "sick of hearing from newbies":  The Linux community is 
famous for helping newcomers.

The issue is willingness to take elementary steps to help one's self,
_first_, before dropping your problem in several hundred advanced users'
mailboxes.  Unwillingness to do so means that they don't care if they
needlessly waste your time, and that they'll be back yelling for help
_every_ time they have the tiniest, easiest-to-solve problem.

The Linux community has gone to a great deal of effort to ensure that 
answers to common questions are easy to find.  My opinion is that 
babysitting people unwilling to use _any_ of the very extensive self-help
methods Linuxers have so painstakingly created -- or even spend two minutes
on Infoseek or DejaNews -- is a waste of time.

I'll often work tirelessly to help someone who mentions having taken those 
obvious self-help steps.  On the other hand, I'm increasingly inclined to 
completely ignore people who don't bother -- and to resent them cluttering 
my mailbox.

-- 
Cheers,                   The cynics among us might say:   "We laugh, 
Rick Moen                 monkeyboys -- Linux IS the mainstream UNIX now!
rick (at) hugin.imat.com  MuaHaHaHa!" but that would be rude. -- Jim Dennis
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