From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Subject: Re: [9fans] non-english keyboard? From: Dave Lukes To: 9fans <9fans@cse.psu.edu> In-Reply-To: <200403101122.i2ABMCHe021337@skeeve.com> References: <200403101122.i2ABMCHe021337@skeeve.com> Content-Type: text/plain Message-Id: <1078935002.20383.108.camel@zevon> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Wed, 10 Mar 2004 16:10:02 +0000 Topicbox-Message-UUID: 2898e1b4-eacd-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 > This is fine and good, (a) in person, (b) in a work or school environment, > where the relationship is clearly not peer-to-peer, and both sides > agree and understand that. > > Those conditions don't apply to the mailing list/newsgroup, where the > "RTFM, you idiot" attitude, without even a pointer as to which FM to R, > is just likely to drive people away. Being gratuitously insulting _never_ applies. Yes, some people on this list (myself included) can be terse to the point where it is considered rude, but usually not deliberately. > It's particularly inappropriate when, as is the case here, the original > questioner has shown a willingness to do his own research when pointed > in the right direction. He _was_ pointed in the right direction ... I don't even have a plan9 system but it took me all of 2 minutes to google the archive for Nemo's stuff on keyboards? Cheers, Dave.