From: pgr@prg.ox.ac.uk (Partially Grown Rhododendron) Subject: Re: Splitting comp.os.linux Date: 9 Sep 1992 07:50:35 GMT
In <1992Sep8.230047.24913@klaava.Helsinki.FI>, Lars Wirzenius
<wirzeniu@klaava.Helsinki.FI> writes:
[...about the splitting...]
> I don't personally happen to think that comp.os.linux has too much
> traffic [...] [...] In any case, my gut feeling
> is that much of the traffic belongs to the category of not reading or
> misunderstanding documentation (GCC installation seems to be a rather
> popular thing to have trouble with), which of course may or may not be
> due to the quality of documentation.
Well, I agree with Lars (and am of a similar mind about
comp.os.linux.announce). I think, however, the volume of the group
could be cut in half if posters thought about emailing there responses
rather than posting them; it would then be for the person who asked the
question to post a summary if it was appropriate.
This would certainly cut down the list of answers which are already
answered in the FAQ; it would also cut down on the inevitable wrong
answers that get posted with the corresponding 20 corrections by other
people; it would cut down on the number of answers that are in other
groups FAQ's...
Just a thought...
phil