Re: Do we need a "Start Here" FAQ on Newusers?
Danny R. Faught (faught@rsn.hp.com)
Wed, 11 Feb 1998 09:55:01 -0600 (CST)
David Alex Lamb wrote:
> I checked out Kent's (faq.org's) list of postings-by-newsgroup for
> news.announce.newusers at
> http://www.faqs.org/faqs/by-newsgroup/news/news.announce.newusers.html
> It has 22 separate FAQs, as follows (and I haven't heard from Mark. about my
> proposal to add my new E-mail meta-FAQ, so maybe it'll go up to 23). Maybe we
> need to post *fewer* FAQs, not more. For example, if my e-mail primer gets
> approved, maybe "how to find peoples' e-mail addresses" no longer belongs on
> newusers (just on comp.mail.misc); the same might be true of some of the
> others.
I agree with the sentiment that new users need to know which one of
the many FAQs in that newsgroup to start with. Rather than a new FAQ
for this, just designate one of the existing ones as the duly
appointed starting point and put all caps or something in the subject
to call attention to itself.
My FAQ sends people to news.announce.newusers, but I feel sorry for
them when they see the long list of FAQs there, thinking they have to
read all of them before they can ever post to Usenet.
-Danny