I would suggest that simply naming the groups "novice", "intermediate",
"advanced", <what have you> would be enough.
I don't see a reason to lock the groups. If the groups are clearly named
people will head to where they "ought to".
A possible solution to the "how to novices learn if they have their own
group" question may be for Palm to take a more proactive stance in that
group... whether it be an in house moderator or appointing/drafting a hot
shot developer to moderate it. Perhaps publishing the urls to the knowledge
base & FAQs every so often... Tossing posts to the advanced group over the
wall to the novice group now & then.
At 11:49 AM 5/26/99 -0700, you wrote:
>>But this brings up an important issue for David Fedor; maybe we need another
>>mail list forum for novice Palm developers. This would reduce traffic here
>>and minimize frequently asked questions. What does everyone think?
>
>I've had the same thought, and was planning to get some developer opinions
>as well.
>
>I was thinking that it might be useful to let anyone lurk on the non-novice
>list (read-only) because they'd benefit from the information...
>
>The question that comes up is how to determine who can be on the non-novice
>forum. (Could be called 'advanced', or 'expert', or whatever.) If it is
>open to all, then I imagine the signal-to-noise ratio would worsen over
>time, requiring another list in the future. Our brainstorming had thought
>perhaps we'd set up an online Palm OS programming test, and if you passed,
>it would let you on the list. (Question 1: where are the FAQs? Question 2:
>have you read them? :-)
>
>The drawback is that if nobody but novices are on the novice list, then
>they might not get good answers and thus would stay novice!
>
>Opinions are extremely welcome... if I don't get responses, I'll start
>asking some of you personally :-)
>
>-David Fedor
>Palm Developer Support
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