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Date:      Wed, 26 Apr 1995 17:39:52 -0500 (CDT)
From:      bsinger@databank.com (Smooch)
To:        hackers@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: The Mentors' Club
Message-ID:  <199504262239.RAA16685@databank.com >
In-Reply-To: <199504260900.LAA00448@vector.eikon.e-technik.tu-muenchen.de> from "Julian Howard Stacey" at Apr 26, 95 11:00:18 am

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What about something a little simpler:

*  Newbie sends mail to {newbie,help}@freebsd.org,
*  which is distributed to a mailing list newbie-q@freebsd.org,
*  which is read by someone who knows something about the topic, who replies.
*  Reply-To points back to help mechanism,
*  which sends the reply to the newbie,
*  saving it with the help message to keep track of where the problems are 
     and to add to the FAQ.
*  Newbie also gets a message explaining the mentor system
*  and is attached to the mentor,
*  and newbie-q is sent an automatic "This person taken care of" message.

After getting a response, Newbie should write directly to the mentor,
and not help@freebsd.

Someone (or newbie-q again) gets a message if a help message hasn't been
replied to in reasonable time, and newbie-q can also be used for 
mentors-above-their-heads.

I think this would get replies to users faster, and by the right person.

Ben



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