In article <1993Jan11.203859.20237@klaava.Helsinki.FI> wirzeniu@klaava.Helsinki.FI (Lars Wirzenius) writes:

   Since people don't read meta-faqs, faqs, readmes, man pages, and
   anything else that answers their questions, except for direct replies
   to questions posted to comp.os.linux, why would they read about all
   these new, wonderful ways to get answers to their questions?

Here is a better and simpler way to do this.  Let's put the
following sentence somewhere in the FAQ.

        When you ask questions in c.o.l., put an extra `.'
        (period) character after `?' in your subject line.  This
        tells people that you _have_ read the FAQ, so that
        helpful linuxers can ignore questions from people who
        haven't even read the FAQ and don't follow this
        convention.

;-)
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