newbe boards?

Robert F. Stockdale IV javabob at adelphia.net
Tue Jan 11 17:26:06 EST 2005


The only dumb question is the unanswered one! NOT SO


correction

The only dumb question is the unasked one!

Just my 2 cents.
Bob


Robert Meyer wrote:

>Well, first, NEVER worry about asking simple or newbie questions here.  That's
>what we're here for.  There are a number of us with considerable experience but
>what is experience for if not passing it on?  Answering questions like these
>keeps us sharp, too.  There are times when we might miss something simple or
>maybe something that we haven't thought of that comes across in the list that
>gets us thinking and we go back and look at our own systems.
>
>Remember something really important:  The only dumb question is the unanswered
>one!
>
>We really don't mind answering your questions and, in fact, I'm sure that there
>are a bunch of lurkers out there that are hanging on every answer to every
>"simple" question that's asked.  Please don't think that we're that elite that
>we get annoyed at your questions because we aren't.  All of us started
>somewhere and we wouldn't have gotten as far as we have without someone else to
>ask the questions.
>
>'nuff said!
>
>Cheers!
>
>Bob
>--- Advent Systems <adventsystems at verizon.net> wrote:
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>>Guys,
>>    I've been lurking and learning here for about a year now and  have 
>>learned a tremendous amount and I THANK YOU.  I was wondering if there 
>>were any  lists that you know that would be more suited for a newbie?   
>>Please don't take this the wrong way.  I really love this list and was 
>>never treated in a  negative fashion in any way but  you guys are so  
>>far advanced me  that  I'm starting to feel funny about  wasting your 
>>time  on some of the most basic stuff I should know.   I will always be 
>>"lurking & learning" everyday at this list but would rather ask the 
>>basic questions on a newbie list, you know what I mean guys.  Again, 
>>it's not that everyone here has not been GREAT it's just reality, with 
>>Linux I'm 18 yrs. behind you guys and I got a lot of catching up to do.  
>>If this was a windows list I'd be ripping my hair out at some of the 
>>questions I have asked and need to ask :)
>>
>>Thanks Again,
>>Bob Randal
>>
>>    
>>
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