"Pier P. Fumagalli" wrote:
>
> Maybe moderated....
>
Moderated is good. Moderating SERVLET-INTEREST would be
very nifty indeed. And a JDBC list would be great.
> Would a FAQ-O-MATIC help? Everyone could post messages over
> there and do searches (organized with categories and with
> free-form searches)...
>
There's sort of a fundamental problem with FAQ-O-MATICs:
A good FAQ document is more than a collection of factoids.
A good FAQ document is more like a very short book in that
much of the effort goes into organization and summary, and
that takes a lot of editorial work. (Anybody who's written
software documentation knows the terrible secret: the more
effort that goes into editorial work, the easier it is to
use, and the less people appreciate the editorial work :-)
I think I'd rather see work going into an improved
regular-old-FAQ, but maybe I've just never seen a really
good F-O-M, so who knows...
-cks
[PS: Anyone hiring knowledgable but terribly opinionated
Java hackers? In Dallas, Austin or NYC? Just checking.]
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