From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: * X-Spam-Status: No, score=1.6 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_05,INVALID_MSGID, REPLYTO_WITHOUT_TO_CC autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,c7ec20d43aed6e2c X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: aidan@skinner.demon.co.uk (Aidan Skinner) Subject: Re: Newbie in distress :-) Date: 1999/10/24 Message-ID: #1/1 X-Deja-AN: 539865387 X-NNTP-Posting-Host: skinner.demon.co.uk:158.152.76.219 References: <7urnh6$4ov$1@news2.inter.net.il> <7usf0h$du2$1@ash.prod.itd.earthlink.net> <7utnh6$gjs$1@nnrp1.deja.com> X-Complaints-To: abuse@demon.net X-Trace: news.demon.co.uk 940746182 nnrp-09:5793 NO-IDENT skinner.demon.co.uk:158.152.76.219 Organization: None User-Agent: slrn/0.9.5.4 (UNIX) Reply-To: aidan@skinner.demon.co.uk Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 1999-10-24T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: On Sun, 24 Oct 1999 01:31:18 GMT, Robert Dewar wrote: >I fear students are unlearning the technique of reading >books, in favor of throwing a quick question to some newsgroup >in the hopes of finding an answer. I don't know, some are. In my Computer Systems lecture on Friday the lecturer asked how many people read news (there's a couple of internal newsgroups apparently being setup), maybe 10% of the class put their hands up. It's probably a lot different in the US, where net penetration is a lot higher (I hate local phonecall rates) though. >(and learn from the reading of) reference materials of various >levels of sophistication. 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... - Aidan (who really likes books, and is glad that his university has an excellent library) -- "I say we just bury him and eat dessert" http://www.skinner.demon.co.uk/aidan/