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

["Paul Sims" <nospam [at] lombard.co.uk>]

We have a problemwith wvdial users - wvdial does not seem to run ip-up.

On Monday, February 21, 2000 12:44 PM, Stephen J. Turnbull [SMTP:turnbull [at] sk.tsukuba.ac.jp] wrote:
> >>>>> "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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