Re: FreeBSD-newbies group is a compromise community.

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Date: Thu, 18 Mar 2004 20:08:39 -0800 (PST)
To: newbies@freebsd.org

> On Fri, 19 Mar 2004, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote:
> I see plenty of folks in freebsd-questions getting flamed for not
> reading
> the manual, when I think in fact many of them are so inexperienced
> that they aren't aware of just where the manual they need is yet, or
> whether the additional manual they need even exists. A lot of
> questions
> are probably even ignored because people read the questions and think
> to
> themselves "I won't answer this - the guy hasn't read the manual, or
> he
> doesn't have a clue what is going on". Sometimes the person with the
> question may have read the manual but misunderstood it, or could not
> locate the relevant docs.

:) Read the nice little message that appears on screen the very first
(and every subsequent) time you login. :) Gives you several places
to go for documentation. Here's the first little bit:

Welcome to FreeBSD!

Before seeking technical support, please use the following resources:

o Security advisories and updated errata information for all releases
are
   at http://www.FreeBSD.org/releases/ - always consult the ERRATA
section
   for your release first as it's updated frequently.

o The Handbook and FAQ documents are at http://www.FreeBSD.org/ and,
   along with the mailing lists, can be searched by going to
   http://www.FreeBSD.org/search/. If the doc distribution has
   been installed, they're also available formatted in /usr/share/doc.

:D And the very last line even tells you how to find information on
using the man page system for finding information on commands.

There's not much more that can be done, other than forcing a user to
go through a tutorial on the first login, which very few people would
appreciate. :)

--
Freddie Cash
fcash-ml@sd73.bc.ca
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