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Re: My Questions



> Hi,
> 
>  I'm sorry if my questions were so annoying to some of you and I'll stop 
> sending them. But befor I do it one last remark:
> 
> One of the targets of this group, at least as I understood, was to spread 
> linux to regular users (not *inx gurus and not for those how have the all 
> dayy free to read manuals). Such users won't use linux if for every 
> simple question they will have to read hundreds of FAQs (that are not 
> always answers the FAQs) and nam pages.

Ilan,
I believe this list was established for handling issues specific to Linux 
and Israel/Hebrew or the ILUG (Israeli Linux Users Group).
Most people indeed don't have time to read hundreds of FAQs and man 
pages, but most people also don't have time to answer questions which 
appear in the most basic FAQs.
Nobody requests you or anyone to read all the FAQs and man pages, but at 
least reading the Linux FAQ periodically is not too much to ask for.
Even Linux experts browse the Linux FAQ occasionally to find pointers to 
information.

You cannot to tell people "Hey, I don't have time to read this and 
that" and expect them to *do* have time to do this work for you.
There is a definite border between lack of knowledge and laziness (no 
personal offense intended :-).

> 
> My suggestion is to establish another mailing list or even better a news 
> group, that will be for my kind of question. Then pepole like Amos or 
> Marc won't have to suffer our question.

I think you should look into the comp.os.linux.* newsgroups. There is 
absolutely no reason to re-invent the wheel.

> 
> By the way - I don't think there is a FAQ that tells you how to set up 
> hebrew with seyon but if I'm wrong - please let me know which one.
> 

Probably there isn't one, but with Hebrew fonts (locations were posted 
here) and a bit of common sense you get very far.
If there seems interest, I think I could compile such a FAQ.

> 
> Bye,
> Ilan
> 

Gavrie.