"Gregory J. Barlow" wrote:
> I am not against a good FAQ, I think it would be nice. I certainly dont
> enjoy having to answer the same question of newbies every week or
> so. There are two problems. Who is going to maintain it? And will most
> new users actually read it?
I think new users will read it. At least if I think myself when I'm starting
to use new software I always read the FAQ. At least when I bump into
problems :)
Maintaining is a bit harder. But if you think it this way: it's the same
effort to write the answer once in the FAQ that it is writing it to the
list.
If you don't have the time to maintain the FAQ, then it might help putting
there instructions how one should find information (man blackbox, search the
archive, read the change files etc.) before asking a question. It probably
won't remove all the newbie questions but it could reduce the amount of
them.
Every time a question that is being asked you can just say: RTFM (--> FAQ
x.x) or something else very guruish!
Peter
