Guide to Problematical Don Saklad Use (was: Draft 1 for a new Gnus FAQ)

["Robin S. Socha" <robin@socha.net>]

* Robert Uhl <ruhl@4dv.net> writes:
> kai.grossjohann@uni-duisburg.de (Kai Großjohann) writes:
>> Dan Saklad is still a moron:

>>> The difficulty people can encounter is with respect to the
>>> question...  how do you learn about the system environment?
>> 
>> You keep asking this question over and over, and the answer remains
>> the same: ask your system administrator.  That's the best I can do,
>> even though you might not like this answer.
> 
> The problem is that many newbies they _are_ the sysadmins--and
> they really don't know what they're doing. 

"This is UNIX. Stop acting so helpless."(DJB)

> Here they are with an incredibly fine-tuned computing machine, and
> they need some help figuring out how to use it. 

Well, yes. And USENET is organized according to topics. This is *not*
comp.os.linux.answers. This isn't a UNIX newsgroup, either. Miss Saklad
is trying to make one believe that the Gnus FAQ needs instructions to
admin your operating system. Well, I'm sure you'll help her write the
documents necessary to cover *ALL* of these:
<http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/emacs.html#Platforms>

> Very few folks buy a computer for a computer; most buy a computer for
> a word processort, a financial calculator &c.  Thus it would seem to
> me that for many, their introduction to system administration might
> come from configuring emacs, GnuCash or gnus.  Sad but true.

Yes. So? This is totally irrelevant regarding the problem in
question. Frank is trying to overhaul the Gnus FAQ. If you want to
contribute, well, that's great. As for Miss Saklad:
<http://templeofhate.com/users/rsocha/rant/dsaklad.php>