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From: tneff@bfmny0.UU.NET (Tom Neff)
Newsgroups: news.newusers.questions
Subject: Re: What does 'UNIX' mean ?
Message-ID: <15165@bfmny0.UU.NET>
Date: 13 Feb 90 16:48:39 GMT
References: <1671@uniol.UUCP> <11321@attctc.Dallas.TX.US> <22187@unix.cis.pitt.edu>
Reply-To: tneff@bfmny0.UU.NET (Tom Neff)
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In article <22187@unix.cis.pitt.edu> wct1@unix.cis.pitt.edu (William C Tom) writes:
>I am fairly new to the usenet. Yes, I have read news.announce.newusers, 
>but unlike some of you guys, I have not been able to memorize all the items.

It's not NECESSARY to memorize them.  The articles don't vanish into
electron smoke after you read them.  If you forget something, go back
and read them again to refresh your memory.  If you can't find the
answer ANYWHERE offline, then post a question to the net.

>It seems that on this present newsgroup, questions from virgin netters
>are frequently greeted with "RTFM".  

The principle is that it's cheaper and kinder to your fellow
net.creatures to do your homework FIRST and exhaust the available
offline (human, electronic and paper) resources before expending the
precious net resource.

This is hard for some to accept, but well worth teaching here.  It elicits 
the odd flame war from reluctant pupils, but that's instructive too.  :-)