From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Mar 12 5:58:52 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from snarf.osdn.com (snarf.osdn.com [209.192.217.153]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C98BE37B718 for ; Mon, 12 Mar 2001 05:58:48 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jim@guinness.osdn.com) Received: from guinness.osdn.com (root@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by snarf.osdn.com (8.11.3/8.11.3) with ESMTP id f2CDwZG34939; Mon, 12 Mar 2001 08:58:36 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from jim@guinness.osdn.com) Received: by guinness.osdn.com (Postfix, from userid 1000) id E93E0173; Mon, 12 Mar 2001 08:58:32 -0500 (EST) Date: Mon, 12 Mar 2001 08:58:32 -0500 From: Jim Mock To: Doug Young Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: documentation issues generally Message-ID: <20010312085832.F2706@guinness.osdn.com> Reply-To: mij@osdn.com References: <004501c0aab5$70074120$847e03cb@apana.org.au> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.16i In-Reply-To: <004501c0aab5$70074120$847e03cb@apana.org.au>; from dougy@bryden.apana.org.au on Mon, Mar 12, 2001 at 03:29:36PM +1000 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, 12 Mar 2001 at 15:29:36 +1000, Doug Young wrote: > Is there anything that can be done about improving the usability of > documentation so that its intelligible to ALL levels of user and not > only the extremely experienced ? The growing number of user-friendly > sites makes it obvious that much of the stuff just doesn't make sense > to many users. I did subscribe to the docs list for a while in the > hope that I could help to make a little difference, but those guys > speak some language from another galaxy !!! > > Has anyone ever considered the possibility that documentation > comprehensible to regular users might cut down on the hundreds of > questions posted to this list daily ?? The new FAQ will hopefully do this. See the -doc archives for more info. - jim -- - jim mock - O|S|D|N - open source development network - - http://www.freebsdzine.org/ - jim@freebsdzine.org - jim@FreeBSD.org - To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message