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  • From: sindi keesan <keesan AT sdf.lonestar.org>
  • To: baslinux AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [BL] Help for a newbie
  • Date: Thu, 28 Dec 2006 01:26:13 +0000 (UTC)

On Wed, 27 Dec 2006, Greg Mayman wrote:

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.

When you feel frustrated and upset, it is not the best time to post answers. Wait a day. You may be correct that the user instructions are inadequate, but they are not intentionally so, and nobody appreciates being told they did a lousy job with their documentation.

Several of us have BL-related packages at our own sites. Perhaps you could write up solutions to the problems you ran into, let the rest of us suggest modifications (for instance, point out that your question was already answered some place), and post the result at your site and ask Steven to link to it. Or I can host what you write up. You do have some valid points.

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.

You should choose your advisers more carefully.
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.

There is a link from the support page that you reach from the BL website, but it is not at all obvious where to find the archives. I also would appreciate a direct link to the archives from the BL site, rather than just a suggestion to search with Google.


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?

I would not know how to phrase the right questions either. Lots of people write into this list with the same basic questions. If you have the time, you could collect some of the more commonly repeated problems in the archives and write up the solutions. Steven may not have the time for this, he does have another life, though he does try to help all newbies immediately (even the more frustrated and less polite ones).

Sindi

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