I really really believe that if you have the stamina to answer these types of questions from new users, you should help the old curmudgeons too by making a wiki page with your helpful information in it and pointing the new user to that page. Then the old curmudgeons can snap off a curt post that points to the wiki page and be both brief and helpful at the same time.

A good example is:

Newbie: "How do I gain root?"
Curmudgeonly Old Timer: http://wiki.maemo.org/Root_access

Please keep up this list! It makes everyone's lives easier!

http://wiki.maemo.org/Frequently_asked_questions


That's a cute baby by the way.