From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Aug 18 10:13:53 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id KAA19328 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Tue, 18 Aug 1998 10:13:53 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from lucy.bedford.net (lucy.bedford.net [206.99.145.54]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id KAA19323 for ; Tue, 18 Aug 1998 10:13:49 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from djv@lucy.bedford.net) Received: (from djv@localhost) by lucy.bedford.net (8.8.8/8.8.8) id NAA29271; Tue, 18 Aug 1998 13:13:11 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from djv) Message-Id: <199808181713.NAA29271@lucy.bedford.net> Subject: Freebsd-questions and the web page To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Date: Tue, 18 Aug 1998 13:13:11 -0400 (EDT) Reply-To: djv@bedford.net From: djv@bedford.net X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL38 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG There seems to be frequent newbie-confusion over the questions link on the freebsd web pages. It appears to the casual visitor to be an email link to an official help desk, and it takes occasionally several emails to clear up this impression, and point out the truth that the user has wandered into an quasi-anarchic commune. It might eliminate some problems if the link led to another page which said: "Fill out this form to post your question to the world-wide mass circulation 'freebsd-questions' mailing list. A happy volunteer will probably get back to you in a few minutes or hours. Click here to read Greg Lehey's "getting the most out of f-q" Click here to browse the FAQ, which might get you an instant answer to your question. Click here to browse the FreeBSD on-line User Manual. Click here to subscribe to f-q, (not necessary to get a response, but nice)." I'd say that links to FAQ and manual should be to ascii versions of same, to facilitate web-browser based searching. Dave -- "Today, machines sit on our desks and spend the overwhelming majority of their cycles doing nothing more important than blinking a cursor." --William Dickens http://www.feedmag.com/html/feedline/98.07dickens/98.07dickens_master.html To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message