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- From: ijackson@nyx.cs.du.edu (Ian Jackson)
- Subject: Proposal - daily very very short "read me" posting
- Message-ID: <1993Jan28.140614.3873@infodev.cam.ac.uk>
- Followup-To: comp.os.linux
- Summary: Proposal to try to stem the flow of FAQs
- Keywords: faq, meta-faq, newbie questions
- Sender: iwj@cam-orl.co.uk (Ian Jackson)
- Nntp-Posting-Host: leek.cam-orl.co.uk
- Reply-To: ijackson@nyx.cs.du.edu (Ian Jackson)
- Organization: Olivetti Research Ltd
- Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1993 14:06:14 GMT
- Lines: 46
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- Anybody who reads this group will know how many inappropriate postings
- there are here. I suggest the creation of a very short (strictly
- limited to under two newsreader screenfulls, and all the important
- attention-grabbing stuff in the first screenfull) posting which would
- be posted daily to col but not to cola.
-
- Something along the lines of the thing I've attached below.
-
- Any opinions, responses ?
-
- First draft release follows:
-
- Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
- Subject: *** READ THIS BEFORE POSTING ***
- Distribution: world
- Keywords: daily
- Supersedes: <last-daily-posting@u.edu>
- From: spqr1@u.edu (someone with a crontab)
-
- To avoid being flamed, and to solve your problem more quickly:
-
- Please do NOT post questions answered in the FAQ lists.
-
- Please do NOT post "Please send me the FAQ". See below.
-
- Please READ the DOCUMENTATION for the program you have a problem with.
-
- Please TRY REINSTALLING it - maybe you just made a mistake the first time.
-
- Please ASK SOMEONE LOCAL to you first.
-
- To get the Frequently Asked Questions with Answers lists:
-
- These (the Linux FAQ, the INFO-SHEET, the META-FAQ sources of
- information posting, etc) are posted regularly to comp.os.linux and
- c.o.l.announce, and can be found at pit-manager.mit.edu in
- /pub/usenet/news.answers/linux-faq and on the Linux archive sites. If
- you can't get them there, try mailing "mailserver@nic.funet.fi" or
- "ftpmail@decwrl.dec.com". If you can't get the FAQ any other way,
- e-mail someone.
-
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- Ian Jackson iwj@cam-orl.co.uk ..!uknet!cam-orl!iwj These opinions are my own.
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