I was also thinking about "Yet Another Mailing List", where people could
post nicely formated "questions & answers" found in the lists. This would
help me a big deal to maintain such weekly/monthly posting (othervise I
have to edit everything myself), and it COULD diminish the frequency of
some WFAQ-s in the list. We could call such questions "RAQ" or
"RFAQ" (R for Recent). (I NEED FEEDBACK ON THIS!)
Sounds like a reasonable idea. What format were you considering for the
formatting of the questions? HTML or something which could be piped through
nroff and the likes.... plain text might be the most easily accessible.
DOCBOOK perhaps?
Either way, whatever formatting you decide on, someone is going to have to
write a template for it, which people will hav to use, and most
importantly, people are going to have to contribute towards it!
Steve Flynn
IBM MVS Operations Analyst
Denis Havlik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on 24/02/2000 15:47:06
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Hi, Jackal
The idea is generally not bad, since the situation has gone out of hand
a bit, but i think every 2-nd day is too much. Also, it would not be
really good if everyone would start running cron-jobs that post to the
list, would it? (I am really not a friend of authomated repetitive
e-mails.)
Yes, I am also tired of "unsubscribe" messages, but
There Are Better Ways To Do It (tm?).
<FOR DISCUSSION>
I am thinking of to posting a monthly (or weekly?) "recent
frequently asked questions with answers" to "newbies" and "experts" list
(two different letters, though), and this will certainly be a part of the
letter (for newbies), so I think there is no real need for you to do it.
I was also thinking about "Yet Another Mailing List", where people could
post nicely formated "questions & answers" found in the lists. This would
help me a big deal to maintain such weekly/monthly posting (othervise I
have to edit everything myself), and it COULD diminish the frequency of
some WFAQ-s in the list. We could call such questions "RAQ" or
"RFAQ" (R for Recent). (I NEED FEEDBACK ON THIS!)
</FOR DISCUSSION>
If nothing else works out, there are still better ways to make this kind
of info more visible: For instance, you could paste it into your
".signature", or I could ask the list maintainer to post the
http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en/flists.php3
address with every e-mail, or even to do a filtering of e-mails which
contain "UNSUBSCRIBE"...
cu
Denis
