And then again, how about newsgroups?
And while on this topic, is anyone interested in a CD with a filtered (in a
sense of informational void messages) copy of this forum? This is not an
offer yet, but it could become one. I use a nice program to generate an
index of the forum and then search in it.
Bobby
-----Original Message-----
From: Jason Mellein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Wednesday, May 26, 1999 3:03 PM
Subject: Re: Is this the list for asking simple Dev questions ?
>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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