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Date:      Thu, 6 Oct 2005 15:38:45 -0500
From:      linimon@lonesome.com (Mark Linimon)
To:        Lowell Gilbert <lgusenet@be-well.ilk.org>
Cc:        freebsd-doc@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: FAQ Updates
Message-ID:  <20051006203845.GA28371@soaustin.net>
In-Reply-To: <443bnezgbl.fsf@be-well.ilk.org>
References:  <20051006135047.B0AB91551@fury.csh.rit.edu> <20051006074516.3F3251551@fury.csh.rit.edu> <20051006080941.GD2627@soaustin.net> <20051006170801.GB20088@soaustin.net> <443bnezgbl.fsf@be-well.ilk.org>

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On Thu, Oct 06, 2005 at 01:49:18PM -0400, Lowell Gilbert wrote:
> I am occasionally tempted to write up a "top ten most frequently asked
> questions on freebsd-questions" list.  

Please do so!

> I think the FAQ should literally be a collection of Frequently Asked
> Questions and their answers.  One of the problems we have is that
> there is no obvious place to put short answers to *in*frequently asked
> questions.  Particularly "how do I" questions. 

The problem is that the FAQ is trying to do to too many things.  I'm
open to suggestions.

Perhaps the technical questions really belong in a knowledge base or a
wiki or some other resource.  Casting them into an SGML file is too high
a barrier of entry for a lot of people, and with that high barrier, things
do not tend to get updated, either.

mcl



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