I think that's a great idea Ben! :)
----- Original Message -----
From: "Ben Kennish" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Tuesday, April 03, 2001 3:34 AM
Subject: Re: CVS
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Nick Burrett" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Tuesday, April 03, 2001 11:03 AM
> Subject: Re: CVS
>
>
> > "Ben Kennish" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> >
> > > Why is it that we are continually asked to trawl through the previous
> mail
> > > group archive to find things out?
> >
> > Because we'd keep repeating ourselves. And why do that, when you can
> > search the archives for previously written answers ? The more often
> > we answer the same old questions, the more terse the answers will
become.
> >
> > After a while, a FAQ is written.
> >
> > > Couldn't various useful things like "how to use CVS" be posted on the
> web
> > > site itself?
> >
> > Documentation on "How to use CVS", like most software is normally on the
> > web-site of the primary distribution source of that software. You
usually
> > get a copy of it when you download the software.
> >
> > If you are actually talking about wanting to get anonymous access to the
> > CVS sources of freevsd, then that should be documented. But I can't find
> > the information anywhere, apart from in the mail archives.
> >
> > Since the mail archives are on the web site, doesn't that actually
> > answer your question ?
> >
>
> Sorry for sounding a bit moody in my last mail! :-)
>
> I know that the answers can be found by searching the archives but when
you
> type "CVS" and get a massive great big list of messages to search through
> (some of which may have typos or be wrong in some way) it can be a bit
> frustrating.
>
> Surely it wouldn't be a bad idea to spend 5 minutes putting a FAQ on-line
in
> HTML format (in the Support section) with detailed long-winded answers to
> all Frequently Asked Questions like this so then people would have no
> excuse! ;-)
>
> I'd be happy to contribute in any way I could to this FAQ and I'm sure
many
> others would to.
>
> Ben K
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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