RE: HOWTOs for the new newbies [was: procmail and kmail]

["Stephen J. Turnbull" <nospam [at] sk.tsukuba.ac.jp>]

>>>>> "Richard" == Richard  <richard [at] sheflug.co.uk> writes:

    >> type "fetchmail" to download your mail from your isp Type
    >> "sendmail -q" and your queued mail is sent to your isp for

    Richard> I do not intend to start typing things into a terminal
    Richard> window when I connect to an ISP.  Either the ip-up script
    Richard> does it for me or I'm not going to use the internet from
    Richard> home.

<applause>

Excellent simulation of the typical "new newbie" response, except that
a _real_ "new newbie" would think "ip-up" is an attempt to write
"hip-hop" in dialect.

This is why I don't intend to write to that audience.  It is hard work
trying to ferret out all of one's hidden assumptions (eg, the
knowledge that anything you can type into a terminal can also be
placed into the ip-up script as long as it doesn't ask for input).  I
could do it, with a lot of help from my audience.  Except that a good
share of the "help" would be written in tones that would melt titanium
(unlike Richard, who was quite good-natured), which would take a lot
of the fun out of it.

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