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From: ruiu@tic.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: Can't ls -l add file sizes properly??
Message-ID: <156@tic.UUCP>
Date: Sun, 22-Nov-87 04:59:40 EST
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Posted: Sun Nov 22 04:59:40 1987
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Summary: Please, have pity.


This is a response to responses of easy questions.

It seems that whenever anyone asks a simple question, there is always a 
veritable flood about it. Some people flame the original poster for not
knowing, and daring to ask what is probably a silly question.

I will dare to conjecture that people who do this, post a question instead
of asking around, don't know that they are asking a bluntly obvious que-
stion:
       why don't ls's add up, how do you peek and poke in c... etc.

Please don't flame people for not knowing, even those who think themselves
gurus were probably struggling neophytes once. Everyone deserves to learn.

So when you see an obvious one, don't jump on the post bandwagon, just quietly
email a response. I mark simple questions to look at later, and if they have
not been answered in a couple of days, *then* I try to answer them. I think
if more people did this, there would be less crying about bandwith. (And
if we could get the amiga people a dedicated net to handle all their traffic :-)

So don't scream at uninformed people, tell them the answer, and maybe next
time they can help you in an area you are new to.


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