From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Mar 12 6: 7:36 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 AE16337B719 for ; Mon, 12 Mar 2001 06:07:31 -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 f2CE7Hq02467; Tue, 13 Mar 2001 00:07:20 +1000 (EST) (envelope-from dougy@bryden.apana.org.au) Message-ID: <036d01c0aafd$e519e060$847e03cb@apana.org.au> From: "Doug Young" To: "Mike Meyer" Cc: References: <15020.55044.631599.345193@guru.mired.org> Subject: Re: documentation issues generally Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2001 00:08:16 +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 > Yes. Improve them, then submit PRs with the improvements. Been there done that .... the docs people speak another language again !!! > > > 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. How then do you explain the growing number of sites like freebsddiary ?? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message