tlug: Re: posting (was fish)

["Jack Morgan" <yojack@example.com>]

Stephen J. Turnbull

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>     Jack> I think this is a good point, but at times I'm not sure when
>     Jack> to post my problem and when to just try to figure it out
>     Jack> myself. Any suggestions?
>
> The standard ones are:  read man pages, FAQs, search the Web.  Think.
> Get copies of logs, error messages, backtraces.  Summarize (but not
> too much; if you don't understand it, leave it in).

Thank you for clarifying!

> And if the question is easy to answer and uninteresting (ie, a FAQ),
> does it really deserve more than "RTFM" as an answer?  Why?  If the
> answer is good enough, heck, you can spend some time as FAQmeister,
> and make sure you get your polite version of "RTFM" posted before the
> piranha show up.  (Been there, done that, got tired.  Now old and
> cranky.)

....What's "RTFM"? :-)




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