From owner-freebsd-doc Sun Jan 20 7:22:13 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Received: from relay3-gui.server.ntli.net (relay3-gui.server.ntli.net [194.168.4.200]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 18DD937B417 for ; Sun, 20 Jan 2002 07:22:10 -0800 (PST) Received: from pc3-card4-0-cust122.cdf.cable.ntl.com ([62.254.251.122] helo=rhadamanth.private.submonkey.net ident=exim) by relay3-gui.server.ntli.net with esmtp (Exim 3.03 #2) id 16SJnM-0000MW-00 for doc@freebsd.org; Sun, 20 Jan 2002 15:22:08 +0000 Received: from setantae by rhadamanth.private.submonkey.net with local (Exim 3.34 #1) id 16SJnH-0000Kx-00 for doc@FreeBSD.org; Sun, 20 Jan 2002 15:22:03 +0000 Date: Sun, 20 Jan 2002 15:22:03 +0000 From: Ceri To: doc@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: splitting FAQ ch. 9 Message-ID: <20020120152203.GA1077@rhadamanth> References: <20020117110921.B32325@blackhelicopters.org> <20020118030554.GC17795@freebsdmall.com> <20020118211213.J2208@holly.calldei.com> <20020119045555.GA57083@helios.dub.net> <20020119081751.A44161@blackhelicopters.org> <20020119220019.GA69416@helios.dub.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20020119220019.GA69416@helios.dub.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.26i Sender: owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Sat, Jan 19, 2002 at 02:00:19PM -0800, Jim Mock wrote: > > Well, part of the problem with that is that people don't seem to read > the FAQ either. It's just gotten too big, and if you don't know where > something is, you've got to look through the whole thing anyway. > > For example, I was just looking for the entry about updating to the > latest -STABLE and getting -RC so I could bookmark it to beat the > newbies who are too lazy to read the FAQ with it when it's asked 400 > times in #FreeBSD (on Undernet). It's in the system administration > section of the FAQ. That was the 4th place I looked. It's not exactly > easy to find things if you don't know where they are :-) Do we currently do anything with the elements ? Perhaps overhauling search.cgi to score on these terms would be an advantage, as imho it's currently nearly useless. Having search.cgi return a few lines of context would be good too. WAIS is deep magic as far as I'm concerned, so I can't comment on how easy these tasks would be. Ceri -- keep a mild groove on To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message