Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2001 00:03:10 +1000 From: "Doug Young" <dougy@bryden.apana.org.au> To: <mij@osdn.com> Cc: <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: documentation issues generally Message-ID: <036501c0aafd$2e112fe0$847e03cb@apana.org.au> References: <004501c0aab5$70074120$847e03cb@apana.org.au> <20010312085832.F2706@guinness.osdn.com>
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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" <mij@osdn.com> To: "Doug Young" <dougy@bryden.apana.org.au> Cc: <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> 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 <mij@osdn.com> - 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
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