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["Greg Mayman" <gmone AT tpg.com.au>]

On Sat, 23 Dec 2006 01:33:23 +0000 (UTC), sindi keesan wrote:

> I wonder how many newbies gave up without letting us know why.  We should
> thank this one.

I wondered that too.

I apologize to anyone I have offended with what I said. I have
tried to point out that I felt frustrated --- make that *V*E*R*Y*
frustrated --- with my inability to make BL3 work with the
add-ons that I wanted to try.

What also frustrated me was the repeated suggestion I got from
several people that I delete it once I have installed enough to
fill it up, and start again. And this advice from people who had
advised me to try it in the first place.

SHEEEEESH! How utterly maddening to keep hearing that, when it
should be obvious how STUPID that method would be for any OS that
was supposed to be usable for proper work.

But people kept saying that they were using BL, so I just KNEW
there had to be a better way to make it work than just deleting
it and re-installing stuff.

Eventually, I was advised to seek help here.

Again I apologise for any offence that I have caused, but at that
stage I was almost tearing my hair out in frustration.

And as for looking through the archives of the list:

1. I did not know there were any archives, nor do I know even
   now how to find them.

2. Since at that stage I did not know enough even to frame
   questions on the subject, how should a new user search the
   archives? Should he read through them in their totality?

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