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Date:      Mon, 24 Apr 1995 23:53:17 -0700 (PDT)
From:      "Rodney W. Grimes" <rgrimes@gndrsh.aac.dev.com>
To:        jkh@freefall.cdrom.com (Jordan K. Hubbard)
Cc:        gary@wcs.uq.oz.au, hsu@freefall.cdrom.com, hackers@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: Gating hackers into the newsgroups
Message-ID:  <199504250653.XAA08228@gndrsh.aac.dev.com>
In-Reply-To: <12925.798785169@freefall.cdrom.com> from "Jordan K. Hubbard" at Apr 24, 95 09:46:09 pm

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> 
> > What I'm trying to do is in *addition* to the FAQ mechanism.  Others
> > working on FAQs aren't going to be affected by what I'm attempting.
> 
> Except that you'll be an excellent source for raw material.. :-)  See my
> other posting.
> 
> > My perception (correct me if I'm wrong) is that many people don't take
> > the trouble to read FAQs, READMEs, INSTALL_NOTES, etc and just blaze
> > away with questions anyway which swamp the developers.  They do send
> 
> You're not wrong...
> 
> > e-mail or post to newsgroups so I imagine they would be mightily
> > impressed to receive personalised assistance from a dedicated helper.
> 
> You're right...
> 
> > Hopefully, the *committed* user base thereby grows and the whole
> > process eventually snowballs -- and we catch up and surpass Linux :->.
> 
> You're dreaming...  But it's a nice dream. :-)
> 
> > Yeah, but as they say "Nothing engenders brand loyalty more than good,
> > old-fashioned, personalised service".
> 
> That's tellin' em, Gary!  Sic' em!  Go get 'em!  :-) :-)

And as a show of my faith in what Gary is doing here:

Gary, please put me on the helper list, and assign me my 1 newbie,
when I am done with him I will ask for another.


-- 
Rod Grimes                                      rgrimes@gndrsh.aac.dev.com
Accurate Automation Company                   Custom computers for FreeBSD



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