The lifecycle of a noob is complex. Fledgling noobs gestate inside biometric pods. Once a budding noob has matured thru gestation they climb out of their pod, sit down at a PC, ask a bunch of questions that are clearly in the FAQ, The Noob is born
it never ceases to amaze me how many people wanting to run eggdrop know nothing or very little about the very basics of using Linux/UNIX through command line; or rather, how many more are these people, as a percentage, compared to users of other GNU/Linux/UNIX software
maybe there is actually some true in the old saying "IRC is lame" after all...