RE: TEXT file doubt

midrange-l-request@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

>   8. RE: TEXT file doubt (michaelr_41@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx)
>
>My post wasn't sarcastic. If folks on this list don't want to answer
>newbie questions, maybe we can have another list. If we can't, we can't.

Where it gets difficult is determining which questions are 'newbie' and which 
aren't. For example, there might be a significant number of programmers out 
there who have no clear idea what [FMTDTA] is meant to be. It sure doesn't 
bring to mind the concept of "sort" right off the bat and it certainly isn't 
considered current technology regardless of how well it works. You _almost_ 
have to be a dinosaur just to know it exists.

OTOH, when a tape conversion question can essentially be answered with "Did you 
try connecting the 7208 and see if it works directly?", nobody thinks in terms 
of "Duh! That's so obvious."

Which of the two questions ought to be relegated to a new list? And once a new 
list exists, will it then be polite to say "Off topic! Get thee to 
Midrange_Newbie!" rather than answer?

Tom Liotta

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