Re: UNIX newbie question

[irsman@iastate.edu (Ian Schmidt)]

In article <32987s$f03@crl3.crl.com> joko@crl.com (Joe Kohn) writes:

>To me, it's almost bizarre that there's more info posted on GEnie's A2
>about using the Internet than there is here on c.s.a2.

That's because online services are the training wheels for the Net.
Nearly everyone starts out on GEnie or AOL and then moves on to bigger
and better things.  As a result, GEnie users are typically amazingly
clueless...they want nice friendly menus etc (kinda like Mac users in
general, but that's another one of my rants :).  Now, eventually they
learn enough to know there's other stuff out there, and that's fine.  I
do have problems with services mixing up the steps, such as AOL's
allowing PC and Mac users to post to USENET, do the Gopher thang, etc.
This is pretty much ASKING FOR make.money.fast outbreaks and such, and
it's already happened.

There's nothing wrong with asking people you don't "know" questions that
are more in their domain, they're generally just as helpful as c.s.a2
people, and in some cases a lot moreso.
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