From owner-freebsd-doc Mon Aug 28 10:26:20 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Received: from sttlpop2.sttl.uswest.net (sttlpop2.sttl.uswest.net [206.81.192.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id B3E7337B422 for ; Mon, 28 Aug 2000 10:26:17 -0700 (PDT) Received: (qmail 9270 invoked by alias); 28 Aug 2000 17:26:11 -0000 Delivered-To: fixup-doc@freebsd.org@fixme Received: (qmail 9060 invoked by uid 0); 28 Aug 2000 17:26:07 -0000 Received: from c207-202-221-105.sea1.cablespeed.com (HELO pop.sttl.uswest.net) (207.202.221.105) by sttlpop2.sttl.uswest.net with SMTP; 28 Aug 2000 17:26:07 -0000 Date: Mon, 28 Aug 2000 10:31:10 -0700 From: Decker Godfrey To: doc@freebsd.org Subject: volunteer to field misdirected questions Message-ID: <20000828103110.A464@ahab.pequod> Reply-To: tres@europe.com References: <000001c01059$58a4e830$3201a8c0@Hilbert> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 In-Reply-To: <000001c01059$58a4e830$3201a8c0@Hilbert>; from wmiles@email.uophx.edu on Sat, Aug 05, 2000 at 21:01:49 -0700 X-Mailer: Balsa 0.9.0 Sender: owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Hello all, As a lurker to this list, I've had a number of opportunities to see misdirected questions to the doc list get some responses that were, well... less than helpful. As a relative newcomer to the FreeBSD world, I know how hard it can be to adjust from a "point and click" mentality, or the chaotic (but newbie friendly!) one-stop-shopping howto style of help; there's just a lot to try and approach all at once. So sending email to the wrong list, or letting outlook format it in HTML are small sins on my list. I wanted to see if any of you would be interested in the idea of a rotating "designated hitter" for the misdirected questions. I think there are three good reasons for this: first, it will cut down on the list traffic; second, it will save time of those who have been taking time out to write back to these people; and third it will give the questioner a kinder, gentler intro to FreeBSD style help. I'd be willing to pull the duty for a while; it would give me a chance to get more involved with the documentation project while I'm still getting my sea-legs. Thanks, Tres To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message