From owner-freebsd-doc Mon Jul 31 12:14:51 1995 Return-Path: doc-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.11/8.6.6) id MAA19869 for doc-outgoing; Mon, 31 Jul 1995 12:14:51 -0700 Received: from emory.mathcs.emory.edu (emory.mathcs.emory.edu [128.140.2.1]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.11/8.6.6) with SMTP id MAA19850 ; Mon, 31 Jul 1995 12:14:48 -0700 Received: by emory.mathcs.emory.edu (5.65/Emory_mathcs.4.0.15) via UUCP id AA10402 ; Mon, 31 Jul 95 15:14:33 -0400 Received: (from jan@localhost) by bagend.atl.ga.us (8.6.11/8.6.9) id PAA08061; Mon, 31 Jul 1995 15:02:01 -0400 From: Jan Isley Message-Id: <199507311902.PAA08061@bagend.atl.ga.us> Subject: Re: Updated FAQ on WWW.FreeBSD.ORG To: jfieber@grendel.csc.smith.edu (John Fieber) Date: Mon, 31 Jul 1995 15:02:00 -0400 (EDT) Cc: roberto@blaise.ibp.fr, doc@freebsd.org, hackers@freebsd.org, www@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <199507301201.IAA26459@grendel.csc.smith.edu> from "John Fieber" at Jul 30, 95 08:01:17 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Length: 1063 Sender: doc-owner@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk I think making the "text" version go away is a mistake. In fact, I think a text form of the FAQ should be posted maybe once every two weeks. I feel so strongly about this need that I volunteered last week when Jordon suggested there was a problem. I still volunteer. Will posting a FAQ cut down on the simple, repetetive questions in the newsgroup? That is the 64 dollar question that no one can answer. Most people think the answer is yes. There is information there that a lot of people will need to know *before* their system is up and running to the point that they can run something through sgmlfmt, if they knew where to look for it to begin with, that is. That is a FAQ in itself, isn't it? If you guys still want to maintain the FAQ but do not want to bother with what I suggest, does anyone have any problems with me fetching whatever is current every couple of weeks and posting it? -- Jan Isley If you couldn't find any weirdness, maybe we'll just have to make some! -- Hobbes