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- From: junio@twinsun.com (Jun Hamano)
- Subject: Re: Reducing traffic on c.o.l.
- In-Reply-To: wirzeniu@klaava.Helsinki.FI's message of Mon, 11 Jan 1993 20:38:59 GMT
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- References: <1993Jan11.072811.4066@athena.mit.edu>
- <1993Jan11.203859.20237@klaava.Helsinki.FI>
- Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1993 22:12:37 GMT
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- In article <1993Jan11.203859.20237@klaava.Helsinki.FI> wirzeniu@klaava.Helsinki.FI (Lars Wirzenius) writes:
-
- Since people don't read meta-faqs, faqs, readmes, man pages, and
- anything else that answers their questions, except for direct replies
- to questions posted to comp.os.linux, why would they read about all
- these new, wonderful ways to get answers to their questions?
-
- Here is a better and simpler way to do this. Let's put the
- following sentence somewhere in the FAQ.
-
- When you ask questions in c.o.l., put an extra `.'
- (period) character after `?' in your subject line. This
- tells people that you _have_ read the FAQ, so that
- helpful linuxers can ignore questions from people who
- haven't even read the FAQ and don't follow this
- convention.
-
- ;-)
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