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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)
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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=-