Rachel Walmsley wrote:
> On the other hand, we absolutely do not want to get into the business of 
> providing documentation for other sites, services or software. For one 
> thing, it's something we have absolutely no control over, and it makes 
> us look bad if they suddenly change their behaviour and our 
> documentation stops being right. For another, it creates false 
> expectations, and people start to ask "but you have information for 
> Gmail! Why can't you tell me how to do it in Hotmail or Yahoo! mail or 
> Little Piddling On the Marsh municipal services mail?" and that's 
> something we absolutely will not do. We don't have the time, the people 
> or the inclination to document everywhere imaginable, and if we did it 
> would swamp all the actual relevant documentation.

How about a support Wiki, where users could leave instructions for the 
things they had got working?  It could act as a secondary FAQ.

Andy
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