Stuck-up Wizards (Re: Summary and Fix for "slashes in filenames")

[Rodney Peck II]

In article <2428 at inews.intel.com> bhoughto at pima.intel.com (Blair P. Houghton) writes:
>In article <832 at nddsun1.sps.mot.com> cowan at soleil.sps.mot.com (Andrew H Cowan) writes:
>>Yes, I posted the original question.  And here's a summary for those
>>who are interested.  All wizards who object to sh*t like this in 
>>comp.unix.wizards should note the "Followup-To:" line and lighten
>>up a little.  
>
>They should, rather, get lost.  They're simply jealous that
>the human mind is not wired into the internet, and that occasionally
>along comes a person who, not having read the net from RFC 1, asks
>a question that has been answered before.
>
>Learning is a monotonic growth experience, education is an
>exercise in iteration.
>
>The only thing more annoying than frequently-asked questions
>is derogatory flames of frequently-asked questions.  Will someone
>please add to the various FAQs that "Why is this question returning?"
>has a very simple answer based on the generational structure of life?

You've missed the point.  I don't think that most of the flame here is
because someone asked how to get rid of a file with a '/' in it.  It is
instead because of all the people who are offering wrong answers.

This exact argument went though this group last year with basically the
same results.

The point is -- this is supposed to be a place where people who really 
actually guarenteed know the answer to some difficult question will answer
you.  cuw is not the place for people to throw in their two cents.  There's
a whole other tree that was created for just that purpose.

and finally, just because a question comes back again and again, doesn't
mean that all the wrong answers have to be dragged out again.  that's what
the faq is for -- if someone wants to say "hey I read these answers in
the faq, and I didn't see this idea .... why won't this work?" -- that,
in my opinon, would be fine.

in summary -- it's not a question of people being out of line.  it's a
question of being considerate when you offer advice to someone who is
expecting your answer to work.

-- 
Rodney