Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!iuvax!rutgers!att!cbnewsh!mbb
From: mbb@cbnewsh.ATT.COM (martin.b.brilliant)
Newsgroups: news.newusers.questions
Subject: Re: Abbreviation: RTFM
Message-ID: <4398@cbnewsh.ATT.COM>
Date: 1 Oct 89 00:26:12 GMT
References: <608@wet.UUCP>
Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories
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From article <608@wet.UUCP>, by epsilon@wet.UUCP (Eric P. Scott):
> In article <1620@tellab5.tellabs.CHI.IL.US>
> 	toth@tellab5.tellabs.CHI.IL.US (Joseph G. Toth Jr.) writes:
>>And, please don't tell me to RTFM...
> 
> I wouldn't do a thing like that.  RFNAN!  (read news.announce.newusers)
> .....  I wouldn't be surprised to find 30 > messages here ....
> .... 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."

On the system I'm reading news on now, news.announce.newusers is empty.
I guess the theory is that new users all start at the beginning of the
month, get all their questions answered, and become instant experts. 
Anybody who doesn't fit that pattern can't know what's in "Answers to
Frequently Asked Questions" because they aren't there.

> 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.

That's software dependent and should be in TFM.  The n.a.n postings are
about the network we all interface with, not about the many and various
tools we use to interface with it.

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