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- From: sorgatz@avatar.tti.com (sorgatz)
- Subject: Re: Why no FAQ
- Message-ID: <1993Jan22.233121.12036@ttinews.tti.com>
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- References: <C16Csw.n27@waterloo.hp.com>
- Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 23:31:21 GMT
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- In article <C16Csw.n27@waterloo.hp.com> siim@waterloo.hp.com (Brad Siim) writes:
- >I keep seeing the same questions every month?
- >
- >PCB help
- >book recomendations
- >PAL help
- >power supplies/regulators
- >amplifiers
- >PC layout package requests
- >passive component questions
- >equipment questions. What to buy
- >protocal and IEEE standards questions
- >How to prototype high speed digital/analog
- >
- >And these are just the ones that have caught my attention. There are many
- >beginner type queries as well. Anybody got the time to administer a FAQ or 10?
- >(I'm not sure how its done but I'm sure someone has to volunteer.)
- >Many of these FAQ's would be a great source of reference to a full time
- >designer and to the hobbiest, but much of the information is lost because
- >many of us do not have time/will to re-answer an old question.
- >
- >Brad Siim
-
- Probably because no one is willing to spend the time or disk space to make
- an FAQ a reality. Then there is the other very-real problem, that of the new
- or non-english speakers that will ALWAYS waste bandwidth to ask the Internet
- how to fix their broken TV/VCR/Radio/tape deck/etcetra ad nauseum..I suggest
- the creation of a new newsgroup for such requests:
-
- alt.can-someone-please-help-me-fix-my-appliance
-
-
- Because the truth is, even though most of these requests come from people
- who work in the "hi-tech" fields, there is no ammount of assistance that will
- carry them through when it come to ACTUALLY repairing the device! They will
- fuss and futz with it and finally say "FUCK IT!", trash the bastard and buy`
- another anyway. If there was a formal place for the techno-ignorant and the
- techno-martyrs to meet we could reduce the volume here to something like 40%
- ...and I don't want a bunch of sniveling flames from you wannabe teachers, face
- it: 99% of the world's populace is unable to draw a crystal set schematic, let
- alone actually fix a vcr - even with help. They should RTFM first ANYWAY!
-
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