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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