Date: Mon, 12 Mar 2001 08:02:44 -0600 From: Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org> To: "Doug Young" <dougy@bryden.apana.org.au> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: documentation issues generally Message-ID: <15020.55044.631599.345193@guru.mired.org> In-Reply-To: <78818951@toto.iv>
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Doug Young <dougy@bryden.apana.org.au> types: > 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 ? Yes. Improve them, then submit PRs with the improvements. > 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 ?? I'm sure it would, by at least a few percent. I wouldn't expect it to cut down much more than that, because that's the percentage that seems to have both read the appropriate documentation and failed to understand it. <mike -- Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org> http://www.mired.org/home/mwm/ Independent WWW/Perforce/FreeBSD/Unix consultant, email for more information. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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