Date: Tue, 1 Aug 1995 10:43:24 +0200 (MET DST) From: roberto@blaise.ibp.fr (Ollivier Robert) To: jan@bagend.atl.ga.us (Jan Isley) Cc: jfieber@grendel.csc.smith.edu, doc@freebsd.org, hackers@freebsd.org, www@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Updated FAQ on WWW.FreeBSD.ORG Message-ID: <199508010843.KAA13982@blaise.ibp.fr> In-Reply-To: <199507311902.PAA08061@bagend.atl.ga.us> from "Jan Isley" at Jul 31, 95 03:02:00 pm
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> 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?
I'm in the process of officially posting the FAQ every month cross-posted
to comp.answers and news.answers to get it archived. I've got
post_faq and auto-faq (I'll probably use the latter).
--
Ollivier ROBERT -=- The daemon is FREE! -=- roberto@FreeBSD.ORG
FreeBSD 2.2-CURRENT #5: Fri Jul 14 12:28:04 MET DST 1995
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