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From: Ted Dennison <dennison@telepath.com>
Subject: Re: Newbie in distress :-)
Date: 1999/10/25
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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." :-)

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