Forget Hardy
Bart Silverstrim
bsilver at chrononomicon.com
Wed Jun 11 13:04:37 UTC 2008
Pierre Frenkiel wrote:
> On Wed, 11 Jun 2008, Alan E. Davis wrote:
>
>> ...
>> 1. On the Debian mailing lists of old, newbies often were excoriated, put
>> down, with a curt "RTFM". This is counter productive. Why do "experts"
>> ...
>
> may I take this opportunity to remember everybody that this list is
> supposed to be read all over the world, and that therefore, it would
> be kind to avoid using slang, as P.I.T.A. or RTFM, thus avoiding the
> reader to have to consult a slang dictionnary every 2 mails, especially
> in a list with 200 posts per day.
Are that many really used that if you're using this stuff often you
don't kinda' learn them like any other industry jargon?
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