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Alan Hicks <alan@lizella.network> wrote:
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> In alt.os.linux.slackware, Rich Grise dared to utter,
> > But I didn't _want_ to post to alt.test, because a.o.l.s is the group
> > I wanted to post to, and I wasn't sure if google would post to an
> > alt group.

> Don't you see the complete lack of logic in the above statement?

> Ooh! I want to post to alt.os.linux.slackware, but I don't know if
> google will let me post to an alt group. I should do a test post to
> see!

> Hmm.... there's alt.test, but I want to post to alt.os.linux.slackware.

> I'll just be lazy and post the test message there.

> Rich, some of the things you do are good (the Norman Rockwell Bob Dobbs
> was simply inspired!), but a lot of the things you do are bad. Posting
> test messages to non test newsgroups is ignorance at best, foolish at
> worst. That's why we have alt.test and others like it after all.

> A few people who's opinions I hold in high regaurd have spoken
> postively of you, and I'd hate to see their opinions change by such
> poor netiquette. I recommend you google for usenet netiquette, and read
> ESR's "How to Ask Questions the Smart Way" essay (google this newsgroup
> for links, I think Guy Macon posted one recently). Slow down a little
> bit in how often you ask questions of others, and instead ask them of
> yourself.

> It's a well known fact that the answer to almost any slackware question
> can be found right on your computer if you just know where to look.
> Next time you have a question, try looking in these places in this
> order.

> /usr/doc/$PROGRAM_NAME
> man pages (use apropos, man apropos)
> /usr/doc/Linux-HOWTOs
> slackbook.lizella.net
> www.slackware.com/book
> www.google.com/linux
> groups.google.com
> alt.os.linux.slackware

> - --
> It is better to hear the rebuke of the wise,
> Than for a man to hear the song of fools.
> Ecclesiastes 7:5
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