Re: Optimize your Mac OS X.
Re: Optimize your Mac OS X.
- Subject: Re: Optimize your Mac OS X.
- From: Sherm Pendley <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 1 Apr 2002 21:37:21 -0500
On Monday, April 1, 2002, at 08:58 PM, Charles Srstka wrote:
But still, it could be argued that a new user might be expected to be a
bit more trusting towards someone posting on a developer's mailing list
such as this one... after all, many people do go to mailing lists, web
boards, and the like for help and follow various other forms of advice
in other areas given by perfect strangers, so why should it be any
different for UNIX commands?
You're over-generalizing, I think. There's a *huge* difference between
taking advice from a community of developers, and blindly running
"mystery commands" found in a stranger's signature.
When advice is asked for on fora such as those you mention, responses
are subject to peer review. If someone were to answer questions with
obviously bogus advice, the advice given would be quickly followed up
with a dozen posts correcting it. In addition, many responses to such
questions are given in the form of RTFM responses - pointers to
authoritative information which can be used to verify whatever other
advice is given.
sherm--
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