> I've seen a lot of noobs who see instructions like "name your file <YOUR NAME> <TOPIC>" and then they literally create a file named "<JOE BOB> <PHYSICS>" and

> I've seen a lot of noobs who see instructions like "name your file <YOUR NAME> <TOPIC>" and then they literally create a file named "<JOE BOB> <PHYSICS>" and so you have to explain to them about the early days of the Internet and ASCII-only interfaces and how those angle brackets are metasyntactic cues that you take out of the final product. I have co-workers who have a ton of trouble understanding man pages because of that.