| From: | Adam J <fro@***.AB.CA> |
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| Subject: | [Admin] Part of FAQ (Was [OT] What in the blazes ) |
| Date: | Tue, 25 Feb 1997 07:05:31 -0700 |
>> >There's even a paragraph in the FAQ that addresses this :)
>> Oh, where???
>
>Unless Fro's removed it, it should be there somewhere. A paragraph about
>how not reading the FAQ makes you ask questions on the list that have
>already been answered in that same FAQ.
>I distinctly remember the time that paragraph was added, including a
>difficult operation to replace "dork" with "butt-head" (or was it
the
>other way around? I always forget...)
I think this is the paragraph you're looking for : ) And its "butt-head",
although I don't remember being around when it was written ;)
----Part of Section II of FAQ follows----
Why should I read this entire FAQ?
Well, if you don't (and it's pretty obvious that you are, at
least in part), chances are you'll end up posting a question to
the list which has already been answered so many times that it
became classified as a Frequently Asked Question, and has been
answered here in this FAQ. This will cause a number of people
to respond with answers such as "Read the FAQ," "It's in the
FAQ," and even "What kind of a moron doesn't read the FAQ?"
It may even spark a conversation about exactly what kind of
moron doesn't read the FAQ. Legend tells us of other,
long-dead mailing lists, in which this topic became such a
point of deliberation as to totally drive out any discussion
related to the original purpose of the mailing list, eventually
taking up so much bandwidth that hundreds of systems worldwide
crashed from the influx of mail.
Also, it makes you look like a butthead.
-Adam
