Excellent point made below, and responded to...
----- Original Message -----
From: "Gerhard Sittig"
[ since we're OT anyway, I don't mind too much jumping in :) ]
I'll second that...
You - and other newbies - can change this situation and have the next newbies suffer less.
As long as people ask their questions, have them answered and silently disappear (since _their_ problem has vanished), there won't be any valuable help for the next one to come across this problem. Those people have to ask again ...
This is precisely why I stick around Linux IRC areas and mailing lists. I have no skill at writing documentation. However, I can and do retain info well, as well as being able to regurgitate it with some decent speed and accuracy. To any newbies out there, GET INVOLVED! Find the answer that you need THEN MAKE IT PUBLIC! If you write documentation, WRITE IT! If you do web-pages, do one about the problem you had! (Can anyone say HOWTO?) If nothing else, HELP OTHERS OUT! There have been several times that I have gotten the "I can't thank you enough!" line. I always answer, "Sure you can! Just help someone else out when you can!" Grass-roots campaign. Gotta live it! Geordon