On Tuesday 04 April 2006 04:28, Stephen P. Becker wrote: > Kari Hazzard wrote: > > This is Gentoo. We have a reputation of good community support to > > maintain here. You're not helping that reputation by being mean to people > > who ask legitimate questions. The issue that the question may have been > > sent to the wrong list is irrelevant. RTFM is never the right answer to a > > question. > > I fail to see how pointing out a post was offtopic is mean. Rather, it > will save that individual (and hopefully others) from making the same > mistake in the future. > > Also, RTFM is absolutely the right answer more often than not. > Otherwise, what is the point of having TFM in the first place? The > amusement of those who spent a lot of time and effort writing it?
Don't reply with RTFM, but with something like: ------------- template ------------- Hi sender, This is explained far better than I could do here in http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/foobar.xml If you have further questions, feel free to ask. Regards, your friendly gentoo developer. ------------- end template ------------- Paul -- Paul de Vrieze Gentoo Developer Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Homepage: http://www.devrieze.net
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