New and Fearful

[Krzysztof Sroka]

On Tuesday 22 of June 2004 23:03, Randy Pratt wrote:
> I really don't think anyone will chew you out.  That's just
> unacceptable behaviour for a FreeBSD mailing list.  It very rarely
> happens.  Most folks are willing to help in polite manner and
> I don't think you have anything to fear there.  I've seen them
> called the friendliest, most helpful community that people have
> encountered.

I've got to admit that. When I was beginning my adventure with FreeBSD I 
already knew that most popular acronyms among Linux users were 'RTFM' and 
'STFW'. And after joining this mailing list and subscribing to some *bsd 
usenet groups I was really stunned that people didn't treat newbies the same 
way! Even if a new user is pointed to a section in a handbook it is done with 
an explanation, without some sort of rudeness that you can meet when you ask 
the same thing on Linux groups. This really helps to understand how to use 
BSD systems, how to deal with encountered problems and so on.

Chris