From: myknees AT aol DOT com (Myknees)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: docs and ng posting (Was: Re: Newbie question, newbie error)
Date: 12 Feb 1998 02:04:53 GMT
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"Robb Beggs" <rjbeggs AT hotmail DOT com> writes:
> Perhaps there should be another newsgroup:
> comp.os.msdos.djgpp.newbie.  It
> could be an environment for us beginners to feel free to
> ask a few obvious
> and frequent questions, yes even questions whose answers
> are in the docs,
> readme and faq. Responses could be posted by those who
> know, or think they
> know. Intermediate users can help beginners, freeing up
> this newsgroup to
> let experts help intermediates, and so on. Of course,
> newbie or documented
> questions will still appear in this newsgroup, but they
> would likely be
> less frequent. 

IMHO that might be not such a good thing.  When I first found out about djgpp I
thought it was amazing that such a piece of craftmanship was free.  Then I was
_floored_ to find all the artisans communing with the plebians in
comp.os.msdos.djgpp!  

As a newbie I have asked many a misguided question from failure to find or
understand information that was in the documentation, but being exiled to a
.newbie group would have meant that I would have missed a lot of the great
"high-level" knowledge that I've picked up along the way.  Sometimes I won't
even understand what I'm reading until a month later, when I'll say, "OH! 
That's what he was talking about!"

I do agree that everyone should help with answering the "easy" questions, and I
trust that the veterans will chime in when there are inaccuracies. As Rob Beggs
points out, the dialog between people possessing vastly different levels of
knowledge can be  even more educational or illuminating than a discussion
between "equals."

comp.os.msdos.djgpp breaks barriers.

--Ed (Myknees)