On Tue, 2002-10-08 at 17:47, Robert Monical wrote: > Years ago, my best resource for learning Solaris > was a set of comprehensive FAQs. The > information was concentrated and relevant. > > Today, a new user, more than ever, suffers > from information overload. It is getting worse > as for profit businesses start to dominate the > search engines with "high noise" low value > information. > > A FAQ would help filter that information. My vision > is a little different than the old Solaris FAQ where > everything was in a few text files. This one would be > linked to a variety of resources. > > The beauty of a FAQ is that a community already > points out the deficiencies in whatever knowledge > base exists and the users join together to address > the information shortfall. > > Having ranted away in a prior post, I'll now volunteer > to pull together a list FAQ if it is OK with RedHat. > (There are valid reasons why RedHat may not > want this to happen.) > > I nobody says stop, I'll propose an outline and > solicit input in a couple of days. >
Great Idea Robert, I was scheming on a way to partialy automate the idenification of the topics that might be of value in a redhat-list faq. They all had to do with placing FAQ in either the subject or the header of a message that helped the solution to one of these FAQs. My thought process was that if the messages can be tagged so that procmail can id them, the could then be sent to a specific folder that could then be examined and then included in the faq once there were enough to do something with. I would be willing to do whatever will help in the process including forwarding candidate emails to a specific address. One issue is that while redhat as a company provides the hardware, bandwidth and human resources to keep all the lists going which I am sure is a substantial expenditure when you add it all up, I am not sure the powers that be realize what a wealth of information is contained in the archives. If they did I think a decent archive search like the one charles and david did at prairienet would exist. If such a document existed I wonder if we could get them (Red Hat) to host it and/or supply a link to it in the mailing list page? For most users I think a -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=unsubscribe https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
