Re: the FAQ-machine
Date: Wed, 15 Mar 2000 14:25:04 -0500
From: "t.bedlam" <bedlam@concentric.net>
On Wed, Mar 15, 2000 at 10:06:58AM +0100, Hans Ekbrand was only
escaped alone to tell thee:
> Wouldn't it be a good thing if questions that were raised more than once
> on this list, and answered was included in the automatic FAQ? This FAQ
> seems to be a bit smaller than I expected, regarded the number of
> frequently asked questions I have seen on this list the short period of
> time I have been subscribed (4-5 months).
Me too, me too--ahem, I mean, I agree.
How do we start?
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The person who asks the question (hopefully) does not know that it already has been raised and answered, so it is up to the the person that gives the answer to supply this info in his/her answer. Then it is up to the person who got help to sumarize and report to the faq-machine.
In many cases, more than one answer is given and a discussion on the matter is started, e.g. pros and cons with different solutions to the problem in question. (Two recent examples are the treads about "moving to a bigger harddisk" and "cloning a system")
I don't know if the FAQ-machine is the right place, but somewhere at debian.org there should perhaps be room for successful stories on the theme "This is how I did x with Debian version y", like the report on a winmodem the other day. I am pretty new to linux (october-november 1999), and I have only experience from Debian, so I really don't know what is Debian specific and what would be of general interest to the Linux community. Perhaps more than I think.
Hans Ekbrand
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