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- From: danpop@mail.cern.ch (Dan Pop)
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
- Subject: Re: FAQ
- Date: 1 Apr 96 01:46:57 GMT
- Organization: CERN European Lab for Particle Physics
- Message-ID: <danpop.828323217@rscernix>
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- In <4jn08c$nar@news2.cais.com> floyd@polarnet.com (Floyd Davidson) writes:
-
- >But the rude an crude answers are not required, and are counter
- >productive. I wish that instead of saying "Read the FAQ.", the
- >answers were:
- >
- > "Read the FAQ, which you can ftp from rtfm.mit.edu,
- > as file /pub/usenet-by-group/news.answers/C-faq/faq.
-
- Before posting for the first time, every new Usenet user is _required_
- to read the articles in news.announce.newusers, which explain the
- "rules of the game". One of the articles permanently available there is
- "How to find the right place to post (FAQ)". Amongst lots of useful
- information, one can find there:
-
- Subject: Finding FAQs and other Periodical Postings
-
- Once you decide what newsgroup(s) are relevant to your question, make
- sure that you're not asking questions that are frequently asked and
- answered. In addition to looking at recent traffic in the group,
- check whether your question is included in a FAQ (Frequently
- Asked/Answered Questions) list. Most FAQs are archived at rtfm.mit.edu,
- in directory /pub/usenet/your.group.name, if they're not available in
- your newsreader in the specific group or in *.answers.
-
- If someone can't be bothered to read news.announce.newusers, it's not my
- duty to waste time and bandwidth by duplicating the information readily
- available there.
-
- > If you read it carefully and have more questions,
- > please post those questions and relate them to the
- > discussion in the FAQ if possible!"
- >
- >I believe that would improve the signal to noise ratio of the
- >qroup almost as much as having the FAQ available!
-
- No way. People don't read FAQ's, don't read news.announce.newusers,
- don't read the newsgroup before posting. Their time is too valuable to
- be wasted in this way. I've seen plenty of posts starting like this:
- "This might be a FAQ, but here it goes...". Everybody is convinced that
- the rules apply to others, not to him/her :-(
-
- I've also followed countless discussions on this theme, and the only result
- was a waste of time. I've accepted that this is Usenet and no amount of
- effort could change it.
-
- Dan
- --
- Dan Pop
- CERN, CN Division
- Email: danpop@mail.cern.ch
- Mail: CERN - PPE, Bat. 31 R-004, CH-1211 Geneve 23, Switzerland
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