Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!twwells!bill
From: bill@twwells.com (T. William Wells)
Newsgroups: news.newusers.questions
Subject: Re: Who's more "helpful?" & Attitudes (Was Re: What does 'UNIX' mean ?)
Keywords: What about your IQ?
Message-ID: <1990Feb13.125547.17026@twwells.com>
Date: 13 Feb 90 12:55:47 GMT
References: <22210@unix.cis.pitt.edu> <11399@attctc.Dallas.TX.US> <10761@nigel.udel.EDU> <22256@unix.cis.pitt.edu>
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In article <22256@unix.cis.pitt.edu> wct1@unix.cis.pitt.edu (William C Tom) writes:
: In article <10761@nigel.udel.EDU> berryh@udel.edu (John Berryhill) writes:
: >When I was barely able to read and I came across a word that I didn't
: >know I would invariably ask my father.  I can't recall a single time
: >that my father actually told me the meaning of the word that I was after.
: >He would always smile and say, "Look it up."   Of course, along the
: >way towards finding the word I was after, I would always come across
: >many other words that I learned as well.  The end result was a near
: >perfect verbal SAT score.
:
: (sigh)
: I wasn't going to post anything more on this already overlong thread
: ...( I know, I know, I helped start it)
:
: BUT, I just can't resist this one......
:
: Did anyone else read the above post and immediately reacted with,
: " *SHEESH*, What a dickhead!"  ?

I did not; in fact, I agree with him. And I think your attitude is
completely inappropriate.

There is no way you are going to get everyone to agree with you;
trying merely raises the temperature in this newsgroup without
generating any results.

Feel free to flame someone (in e-mail, please), if the answer
they give is literally RTFM; such abbreviations don't help the
user who has never heard of them. But if someone is only willing
to point out the right place to read, that is perfectly valid and
useful advice; it is not your place to say otherwise.

Followups have been directed to alt.dev.null.

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