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Date:      Mon, 12 Mar 2001 08:58:32 -0500
From:      Jim Mock <mij@osdn.com>
To:        Doug Young <dougy@bryden.apana.org.au>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: documentation issues generally
Message-ID:  <20010312085832.F2706@guinness.osdn.com>
In-Reply-To: <004501c0aab5$70074120$847e03cb@apana.org.au>; from dougy@bryden.apana.org.au on Mon, Mar 12, 2001 at 03:29:36PM %2B1000
References:  <004501c0aab5$70074120$847e03cb@apana.org.au>

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On Mon, 12 Mar 2001 at 15:29:36 +1000, Doug Young wrote:
> Is there anything that can be done about improving the usability of
> documentation so that its intelligible to ALL levels of user and not
> only the extremely experienced ?  The growing number of user-friendly
> sites makes it obvious that much of the stuff just doesn't make sense
> to many users.  I did subscribe to the docs list for a while in the
> hope that I could help to make a little difference, but those guys
> speak some language from another galaxy !!!
> 
> Has anyone ever considered the possibility that documentation
> comprehensible to regular users might cut down on the hundreds of
> questions posted to this list daily ??

The new FAQ will hopefully do this.  See the -doc archives for more
info.

- jim

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