From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Apr 26 06:34:06 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id GAA24282 for hackers-outgoing; Wed, 26 Apr 1995 06:34:06 -0700 Received: from aries.ibms.sinica.edu.tw ([140.109.40.248]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with ESMTP id GAA24268 ; Wed, 26 Apr 1995 06:33:41 -0700 Received: (from taob@localhost) by aries.ibms.sinica.edu.tw (8.6.11/8.6.9) id VAA02711; Wed, 26 Apr 1995 21:33:57 +0800 Date: Wed, 26 Apr 1995 21:33:55 +0800 (CST) From: Brian Tao To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" cc: core@freefall.cdrom.com, hackers@freefall.cdrom.com Subject: Re: E-mail/phone support for FreeBSD In-Reply-To: <10693.798781478@freefall.cdrom.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: hackers-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Mon, 24 Apr 1995, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: > > They would do for a start. I think you miscalculate the percentage of > user base that actually calls for tech support. I probably am then. My experience has been with administration and technical support in an academic/research environment, and at a 6000-user ISP in Toronto. The latter employs several support staff, two or three of whom are on the phones all day. This includes "sales" as well as real, live tech support. A comfortable ratio in that situation would be 1000 users to 1 phone operator. I figured FreeBSD might generate a similar response. > Linux is huge, and we > only get between 30 and 40 calls a day.. One person full-time can > easily handle that and we're nowhere near as big as Linux. This goes > double if they also put some time into implementing better mail ^^^^ > robots, an answers-by-FAX system, a more usable WWW based FAQ, etc. They? You mean Walnut Creek or the Linux people? One thing I really like about Linux is the massive amount of documentation available for it. Matt Welsh is doing a magnificent job coordinating that effort. -- Brian ("Though this be madness, yet there is method in't") Tao taob@gate.sinica.edu.tw <-- work ........ play --> taob@io.org