From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Mar 5 5:45:58 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from gargoyle.apana.org.au (brisba6.lnk.telstra.net [139.130.66.200]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EB61237B9FC for ; Sun, 5 Mar 2000 05:45:52 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dougy@gargoyle.apana.org.au) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by gargoyle.apana.org.au (8.8.8/8.8.8) id XAA29091 for ; Sun, 5 Mar 2000 23:45:48 +1000 (EST) (envelope-from dougy@gargoyle.apana.org.au) Received: from roadrunner.apana.org.au(203.3.126.132), claiming to be "ROADRUNNER" via SMTP by gargoyle.apana.org.au, id smtpdq29087; Sun Mar 5 23:45:40 2000 Message-ID: <00b101bf86a9$101d3d90$847e03cb@ROADRUNNER> From: "Doug Young" To: Subject: ReadMe files Date: Sun, 5 Mar 2000 23:45:20 +1000 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2919.5600 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2919.5600 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Who is responsible for the ReadMe files on the FreeBSD FTP site?? My reason for asking is a problem I had that could have easily been avoided with a couple extra lines of explanation in a particular ReadMe. I'm aware of a number of associates who have experienced the exact same problem but haven't persisted in the search for answers as much as I have. I'm certain that many of the regular questions posted to the various mailing lists could be avoided if there was a mechanism to provide more explicit information on potential areas of confusion, thus reducing the number of "trivial" questions posted to the mailing lists. The manual & the Complete FreeBSD do a very good job in many areas, but unfortunately there will always be issues that aren't covered explicitly enough for newbies, and its obviously a waste of resources for the experts to spend time answering questions that could have been avoided had sufficient information been provided elsewhere in a readily visible form. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message