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- From: najem@cs.uiuc.edu (Ziad H. Najem)
- Subject: Re: Reducing traffic on c.o.l.
- Message-ID: <C0py7D.A4E@cs.uiuc.edu>
- Organization: University of Illinois, Dept. of Comp. Sci., Urbana, IL
- References: <1993Jan11.072811.4066@athena.mit.edu> <1993Jan11.203859.20237@klaava.Helsinki.FI> <bkBSb$li@twinsun.com>
- Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1993 02:14:00 GMT
- Lines: 35
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- junio@twinsun.com (Jun Hamano) writes:
-
- >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.
-
- Another solution would be to refer to people to the FAQ when someone asks
- a question that is answered in one the FAQ. The answer might be even
- more helpful by including a complete list of the FAQ's, where they can
- be found, and who is the current moderator in case a correction or an
- expantion is needed. I can come up with such a standard answer if you
- think that is a good solution.
-
- >;-)
- >--
- > |
- > __-+-__ Jun Hamano
- >_-+ (|o|) +-_ junio@twinsun.com
- > ! . !
-
- - Ziad
- najem@cs.uiuc.edu
-