On Tue, Apr 17, 2001 at 11:19:11PM -0500, will trillich wrote: > On Fri, Apr 13, 2001 at 02:01:24PM -0400, Rob Mahurin wrote: > > On Fri, Apr 13, 2001 at 09:05:43AM +0100, Glyn Millington wrote: > > > What might help is a daily post to the list with a subject line > > > "NEW TO LIST? READ THIS!!" [...] > daily is waaay too often. there's plenty of traffic on the list > already... YET a periodic re-post is not a bad (or original) > idea. many newsgroups publish their faq, sometimes multi-part > faq's, monthly or quarterly.
Truth. > > I imagine the following format: > > > > --- begin hypothetical message --- > > Subject: Frequently Asked Questions on debian-user > > nice start so far. add it to http://newbieDoc.sourceForge.net? You must have left town for the weekend, Will; I expected you to ask me that days ago. I'll look at it. > redundancy in mentioning a document source is NOT a bad thing. > HOWTOs can be mentioned in fifteen different places on this FAQ > document, and it won't hurt a thing. Good point. By the way, you should read the Linux HOWTOs. > don't let anyone put a damper on this effort. it's important! > (and when you're done -- we prefer sgml, docbook style, but we'll > accept html -- add it to our itty-bitty library at newbiedoc over > at http://sourceforge.net/projects/newbiedoc/ !) Thanks for the encouragement. I'm keeping working drafts at http://web.utk.edu/~rmahurin/debian-user-faq/faq.html ; s/faq.html// for a little front matter. Rob -- QOTD: "A university faculty is 500 egotists with a common parking problem."
