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From: sheldon@iastate.edu (Steve Sheldon)
Subject: Re: 386BSD vs Linux
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Date: Thu, 15 Apr 1993 14:29:24 GMT
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In <1993Apr14.183514.6076@njitgw.njit.edu> kxn3796@hertz.njit.edu (Ken Nakata CIS stnt) writes:

>>all works.  But thus far I've been reading this group for about a month and
>>have not seen an FAQ yet describing where to get the darned thing.

>Have you ever heard of archie?  You can use it to look for FAQ or any file
>anonymous ftp sites have.  You have neither to ask on the net "where's the
>FAQ?" nor to say "this might be a FAQ..."  Isn't it nice?

 Why have over a half dozen people wasted all this public network bandwidth
by posting:

 "Ever heard of archie?  You can use it to locate stuff."

 Instead, why don't people just send the poor guy a piece of email saying:

#"The FAQ for 386BSD is available on ftp.iastate.edu, in the directory
#/pub/386bsd/386bsd-0.1/unofficial/.
#
# Good luck!  Hope it works out for you!"

 Of course, the easiest way to prevent FAQ's from coming up in a newsgroup
is to post the FAQ periodically.  And considering that this is the .question
group, one should expect questions to come up periodically.  If you don't
like answering questions, don't read this group.

 Instead people have sent out 6 public responses which contained no useful
information to someone asking a very simple question.  Yes, I can tell
people really put a lot of thought into their replies.

 Stop trying to chase people away from this group.  Consider yourself lucky
that it isn't as busy as comp.os.linux with 200 new messages a day.
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