[1372] in RedHat Linux List
FAQs (was Re: moving contents of hard drive)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jon Klaren)
Mon Oct 28 03:09:30 1996
Date: Mon, 28 Oct 1996 00:07:34 -0800 (PST)
From: Jon Klaren <jklaren@qualcomm.com>
To: redhat-list@redhat.com
In-Reply-To: <199610280420.XAA07246@redhat.com>
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On Sun, 27 Oct 1996, Donnie Barnes wrote:
[stuff about copying whole drives deleted]
> >] Hey Donnie,
> >] This "how do I copy a whole drive" is such a FAQ. Any chance you
> >] could add it to the FAQ. (Like you don't have anything else to do ;-)
>
> I have a philosophical problem adding this to the FAQ. It is
> the "Red Hat" FAQ, so we should try to keep it Red Hat specific,
> and this isn't.
>
> Perhaps we should have a Red Hat mailing list FAQ? I'd like to
> see that, but I'd also like to see it handled by the user base
> (ie *you* guys, not me :-). I would be willing to put it on our
> web site and even change the danged footer for every message.
> If anyone would like to volunteer to maintain such a doc, email
> me privately. The maintainer would *have* to keep the FAQ in
> linuxdoc-sgml format, though. (It isn't hard to learn, I promise.)
I see your point. The Red Hat FAQ should be Red Hat specific. But
there's no use reinventing the wheel by making a redhat-list FAQ
(i.e. duplicating the efforts of the LDP). On the other hand, there is
a lot of off-topic mail on this list, and many of them are FAQs.
What do others think? Donnie used to be the champion of tact with his
"read the FAQ" messages, though it would piss some people off. Should
we discourage off-topic posts and pleas for general help? There are
other mail-lists and news groups for this type of help, although I'm the
first to admit the redhat-list is the only one I follow regularly due to
the friendly, helpful nature of the folks here and the fairly high and
spam-free signal:noise ratio.
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