[TLUG]: of Hackers, Newbies and Fanboys

[R. Wood]

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Allegedly, on Mon, Feb 12, 2007 at 10:40:47PM -0500, Alfred stated:
> About last week, I offered a bit of advice on setting up a Dial-up
> service, for a Newbie that wanted to know how it was done. When I set
> up my, e-mail set-up it was not real easy, it required a few
> experiments to figure out how to do it. So I got the guy to connect,
> but then the authentication was not just right, so the mail server on
> his IP, shut down seconds after connecting. I've noticed that many
> Computer people are somewhat impatient. If something does not work as
> of Last Week, then they move on to something else, in an Atto-second!
> That is what happened to that Newbie, he went on to Xandros. Ice
> Houses are Nice, but little things like this, take away from, little
> demonstrations, and giving out free discs, when things don't work real
> smoothly. 
> 
> I know some Distros, are real easy to set up. I thought about it a
> bit.  How hard would it be to fill in the blanks from a look-up table.
> Perhaps have a choice on a menu of Automatic and Manual Setup. Then
> Fill in The Phone Number of the IP, and the User ID, and Password.
> Then the URL of the IP. Then from a look-up table supply all the other
> data, required for that IP's Mail server, so that the Newbie user,
> does not have to spend weeks getting the mail server working. It's
> Automatic now! Takes a few seconds and it works, 98% of the time. In
> seconds not Weeks!

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