[ILUG] List abuse (was: count of files in a directory)

[Colm Buckley]

On Tuesday 31 July 2001 09:31, hrishy wrote:

> i am on sunos

SunOS is not Linux.  SunOS might have its own wrinkles and
complications which Linux experts might not be able to diagnose.  This
is a *LINUX* *USER* *GROUP* list.

Hitherto, the members of the ILUG lists have been very patient with
irrelevance, and with "homework questions".  I am, however, a bit
concerned with the tone of question which is becoming more frequent on
the list; it seems that some posters treat the list as a "general pool
of knowledge", to which *any* question may be submitted.  Nothing
wrong with that per se; as long as the group's not overwhelmed.
However, a fifteen-message thread on some peculiarity of *SunOS* which
could almost definitely be resolved with ten minutes' manpage-reading
and googling has no place on this list.

People, *please* make an effort to solve the problem yourself, using
the general web and your own system's manual, before blindly posting
to the list?  And *please* bear in mind that this is a *Linux* list;
making life easier for users of Lesser Operating Systems is not part
of the mandate of ILUG, nor of this list.

        Colm (doesn't anyone *research* things any more?)
          - wearing listbastard hat

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