PMFJI:
I'm a Newbie* to this list, but have been a long timer on the SAS-List Server (been a SAS code dog since mid 70's and an OS/2-er since '89) and over there we court all questions: newbie or guru <g>.
As in any crowd of individuals, however, you may get the snide, put-down-ish response here and there. But the List does seem to "police" itself (large N, I guess, keeps the outliers in check) such that, by and large, the SAS-List is a casual and comfortable place for all.
Not to be presumptuous, but I don't see why it can't be the same here.
In fact, I *guarantee*, I'll put my foot in my mouth at least a few times, via "dumb-to-others" types of questions when I finally get around to post to this List <vbg>.
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* I'm so new, I don't even have a Linux box yet!!.
Later
At 04:12 PM 01/14/2000 -0800, Eric Andreasen wrote:
>Sounds like a good idea. It can be intimidating to think about posting newbie-like questions in the rarified atmosphere of this linux guru forum. ; ) I'm sure we sometimes look downright ignorant, yet, if you read the definition of the word "ignorant", we are! I'd like to feel free to ask dumb questions without thinking I might be waisting anyone's time (or bandwidth!).
>Eric A.
>
>>From: "Dilley, Larry (OTS-RC)" <Larry_Dilley@billing.com>
>>Reply-To: lug-nuts@saclug.org
>>To: "'lug-nuts@saclug.org'" <lug-nuts@saclug.org>
>>Subject: [lug-nuts] Response to Da Basics meeting
>>Date: Fri, 14 Jan 2000 08:34:51 -0800
>>
>>I thought it was good stuff. Even though I knew everything from the meeting,
>>I'm still a pretty green newbie. Many times I find myself lost at some of
>>our regular meetings. I still contest that we need some sort of "newbie
>>forum" for those of us that are just starting out
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