Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!wuarchive!gem.mps.ohio-state.edu!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!ucbvax!ucsfcgl!cca.ucsf.edu!wet!epsilon From: epsilon@wet.UUCP (Eric P. Scott) Newsgroups: news.newusers.questions Subject: Re: Abbreviation: RTFM Summary: Read news.announce.newusers Message-ID: <608@wet.UUCP> Date: 28 Sep 89 18:38:18 GMT References: <1812@servax0.essex.ac.uk> <2652@zaphod.axion.bt.co.uk> <1620@tellab5.tellabs.CHI.IL.US> Reply-To: epsilon@wet.UUCP (Eric P. Scott) Organization: Wetware Diversions, San Francisco Lines: 35 In article <1620@tellab5.tellabs.CHI.IL.US> toth@tellab5.tellabs.CHI.IL.US (Joseph G. Toth Jr.) writes: >By the way, what does UNIX stand for?? (setting up for a barage of bad jokes?) Not funny. See below. >And, please don't tell me to RTFM... I wouldn't do a thing like that. RFNAN! (read news.announce.newusers) >Maybe I shouldn't have done it, sarcasm is so | Joseph G. Toth Jr. >seldom understood. Don't FLAME on me, please. | uunet!tellab5!toth This is not the place. I wouldn't be surprised to find 30 messages here tomorrow that say "but what *does* UNIX stand for?" from users that haven't read news.announce.newusers and don't know that this is the very first item in "Answers to Frequently Asked Questions." Would someone please write up something on KILL files and submit it to Spaf for inclusion in next month's n.a.n postings? I see that's one of the few omissions. Besides news.announce.newusers (which is updated more or less monthly), your news administrator should have made available the documents How To Read The Network News How To Use USENET Effectively from the B News package. (These also came with a "Copyright Law" explanation, which needs to be updated; its author, Jordan J. Breslow, also has a companion piece on software patents that probably should be distributed with it iif it isn't already.) -=EPS=-