I throughly enjoy the Unix side of OS x and and since I am a NEWBIE in that part of the basic operating system I find the discussion of unix very acceptable. Keep it coming! Mike --- Charles Martin <chasm at mac.com> wrote: > > From: Leah Aronoff <laronoff at fuse.net> > > > > Boy! None of this sounds like Newbies talk to me. > It is > > incomprehensible to me. I'm a real basic Newbie, > who worries about > > things like how external drives work as backups, > and which is best to > > use, and how much do they cost, and stuff like > that. . . . Leah > > I have to agree with Leah. This discussion is WHOLLY > inappropriate to > the X-Newbies list and should really be taken to > private email. > > I'm not the list mom, but I signed up here because I > wanted to help > people who had NEWBIE type questions, and to learn > FROM newbies about > how they view and work with the Mac so that we can > all benefit. > > This UNIX drivel is meaningless to 99% of the list > and esoteric in > the extreme to boot. > > Take it elsewhere, please. And next time, try to > remember which list > you're posting to. > > Cheers > Chas > _______________________________________________ > X-Newbies mailing list > X-Newbies at listserver.themacintoshguy.com > http://listserver.themacintoshguy.com/mailman/listinfo/x-newbies > > Listmom is trying to clean out his closets! Vintage > Mac and random stuff: > http://search.ebay.com/_W0QQsassZmacguy1984 > __________________________________________________________________________________________ Check out the New Yahoo! Mail - Fire up a more powerful email and get things done faster. (http://advision.webevents.yahoo.com/mailbeta)