Re: The FAQ
Posted in 1994
Gary writes: > : to a question does. To wit - I asked a question two days ago that I should > : have known the answer to, but my brain was turned off or something. I got > : at least 2,038 nice replies telling me to check permissions. > > Now _there's_ a good example of why there should be a FAQ. You'd have > received your answer once instead of at least 2,083 times. > Yes, but to find it in the FAQ I might have had to read for ages. Ditto for the manual. How much easier to expose my ignorance to the net and get all that mail. Besides - when asking an question you always get more than one type of response. So an number of possible solutions result. I guess at the very least any FAQ should have a good index. j. _____________________________________________________________________________ Jack Parker | Hewlett Packard, BSMC Boise, Idaho, USA| "They call her aunt only when jparker@hpbs3645.boi.hp.com | her cucumbers are ripe." (208) 396-5388 (W) (208) 384-1623 (H) | - Burmese folk wisdom _____________________________________________________________________________ Any opinions expressed herein are my own and not those of my employers. _____________________________________________________________________________