On Fri, 2006-08-25 at 13:42 -0500, Les Mikesell wrote:
On Fri, 2006-08-25 at 14:20 -0400, William L. Maltby wrote:
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What would really be nice would be some volunteer editors to collate useful answers from both the mail list and forums into the wiki and respond to repeat questions with links to the right places. Neither forums nor mail list archives work very well as historical knowledge bases even though the answer you want might be in there somewhere.
A FAQ maintainer? They had on LFS and it worked pretty well. The only drawback was the same that makes current vehicles less useful: as some folks won't search archives, others won't search a FAQ, some won't check the forum(s).
Then the FAQ maintainer issues the refrain from that old song "Please Mr. Custer (I don't wanna go)", "What am I doing here?" and moves on.
*But* that shouldn't stop us from trying.