From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Mar 12 6: 2:33 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from bryden.apana.org.au (bryden.apana.org.au [203.3.126.129]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7890E37B718 for ; Mon, 12 Mar 2001 06:02:27 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dougy@bryden.apana.org.au) Received: from roadrunner (roadrunner.apana.org.au [203.3.126.132]) by bryden.apana.org.au (8.11.1/8.11.1) with SMTP id f2CE2Bq02403; Tue, 13 Mar 2001 00:02:13 +1000 (EST) (envelope-from dougy@bryden.apana.org.au) Message-ID: <036501c0aafd$2e112fe0$847e03cb@apana.org.au> From: "Doug Young" To: Cc: References: <004501c0aab5$70074120$847e03cb@apana.org.au> <20010312085832.F2706@guinness.osdn.com> Subject: Re: documentation issues generally Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2001 00:03:10 +1000 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4133.2400 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4133.2400 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Thanks ..... I've noticed a few vastly improved FAQs appearing around the traps lately so hopefully the FreeBSD one will be as good. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jim Mock" To: "Doug Young" Cc: Sent: Monday, March 12, 2001 11:58 PM Subject: Re: documentation issues generally > 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