From: Ted Dennison <dennison@telepath.com>
Subject: Re: Newbie in distress :-)
Date: 1999/10/25
Date: 1999-10-25T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <7v1pa7$5gc$1@nnrp1.deja.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: slrn81573m.pl.aidan@skinner.demon.co.uk
In article <slrn81573m.pl.aidan@skinner.demon.co.uk>,
aidan@skinner.demon.co.uk wrote:
> I really want to say that I think this will be a lot better when the
> FAQ is posted here regularly, but I don't think that the sort of
> person who posts these questions is the sort of person who lurks for a
> while before posting...
True, but then one person can just post a RTFFAQ message, rather than
having these long threads about it. If you want to be really helpful,
you can even give the hapless one a FAQ paragraph #.
Of course in this case the FAQ entry would be something like "This is
comp.lang.ada, not comp.basic.data_structures. Put down your beer for a
minute and try reading that textbook your parents spent $50 on." :-)
--
T.E.D.
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[not found] <7urnh6$4ov$1@news2.inter.net.il>
1999-10-23 0:00 ` Newbie in distress :-) David C. Hoos, Sr.
[not found] ` <Pine.A41.3.96-heb-2.07.991023170713.120704A-100000@pluto.mscc.huji.ac.il >
1999-10-23 0:00 ` Matthew Heaney
1999-10-24 0:00 ` David Botton
1999-10-24 0:00 ` Guy Cohen
1999-10-24 0:00 ` Ehud Lamm
1999-10-24 0:00 ` David Botton
1999-10-28 0:00 ` Another " Charles Hixson
1999-10-28 0:00 ` David Botton
1999-10-23 0:00 ` Ehud Lamm
1999-10-24 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-10-24 0:00 ` Ehud Lamm
1999-10-24 0:00 ` Aidan Skinner
1999-10-25 0:00 ` Ted Dennison [this message]
1999-10-25 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
1999-10-26 0:00 ` Aidan Skinner
1999-10-25 0:00 ` Ted Dennison
1999-10-28 0:00 ` Gautier
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