Re: Beep on new mail
On Thu, 19 Aug 2004, Andre Bonhote wrote:
> Hi
>
> On Thu, Aug 19, 2004 at 08:38:20AM +0200, Niklas Morberg wrote:
> > One example of the helpfullness of the gnus people is that they never
> > say "RTFM". They say _how_ to read it and find the answer to the posted
> > question. This helps the user to find the answer himself the next time.
>
> I see the reason for the repeated RTFM acronym in the really _very_
I don't. Supposing that you're talking to someone who has a reasonable
command of English and doesn't refer to it as "beep"?
(there's no point in being rude, since it also marks the rude person as
equally ignorant).
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