Re: [gentoo-dev] When will KDE 3.5 be marked as stable?

[Paul de Vrieze <pauldv@gentoo.org>]

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On Tuesday 04 April 2006 04:28, Stephen P. Becker wrote:
> Kari Hazzard wrote:
> > This is Gentoo. We have a reputation of good community support to
> > maintain here. You're not helping that reputation by being mean to people
> > who ask legitimate questions. The issue that the question may have been
> > sent to the wrong list is irrelevant. RTFM is never the right answer to a
> > question.
>
> I fail to see how pointing out a post was offtopic is mean.  Rather, it
> will save that individual (and hopefully others) from making the same
> mistake in the future.
>
> Also, RTFM is absolutely the right answer more often than not.
> Otherwise, what is the point of having TFM in the first place?  The
> amusement of those who spent a lot of time and effort writing it?

Don't reply with RTFM, but with something like:

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Hi sender,

This is explained far better than I could do here in 
http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/foobar.xml
If you have further questions, feel free to ask.

Regards,

your friendly gentoo developer.
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Paul


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