From: John P. Looney (jplooney-ilug at domain online.ie)
Date: Tue 16 May 2000 - 14:13:44 IST
On Tue, May 16, 2000 at 01:51:29PM +0100, Noel Carroll mentioned:
> Is this be rude to newbies day or what? Kate, you do have a very good
> point but, if newbies geta sharp answer like that they might just give up on
> the whole lark. Remember that the average Windoze user is shielded from the
> command line version of FTP in a lot of cases. I think that, from that
> guys posts earlier, that he is very much a 'I just installed Linux for the
> first time' newbie so hows about cutting people like that some slack? Sure
> if they persist with daft questions after 3 months then tell 'em where to
> go.
Give up what ? FTPing from his NT machine to his digital unix machine ?
It had nothing to do with Linux. Hence the sharpishness.
Kate
-- "The fool must be beaten with a stick, for an intelligent person the merest hint is sufficient" -- Zen Master Greg
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