[newbie] Anyone out there??

[Andrew Willard]

On Sunday, November 17, 2002, at 11:52  AM, linuxguru@shaw.ca wrote:

> I was graspin at straws! <smile>   Besides, it's not an 
> oxymoron....it's AMBITION!  lol

A positive attitude certainly helps when learning Unix systems... good 
luck.

> Thanks for the heads up about the "discuss"  list...

Of course you can still post to this list... it just doesn't
have as many guru's waiting to answer questions.

I should also warn you that the discuss list expects questions to be
posted in a certain manner ie: don't ask things without first attempting
to solve it yourself AND especially don't ask anything without first
reading the manual or howto on the subject!!

The following is a good overall discussion on talking to geeks:
http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html