On 11-Mar-99 Keith wrote:
> What I like to do when I have a problem I first go to dejanews.com and do
> a Power Search of the particular newsgroup that covers my problem. I don't
> know if they are archiving the diald newsgruop but if they are it should
> be the first place people when they have trouble. 95% of time a newbie is
> having the same trouble another newbie has already had resolved. So
> far I have yet to discover a bug, just had the dang thing setup your I
> reckon. Just thought we could better utilize our time.
>
Second in on this one.
I read comp.lang.tcl and comp.lang.perl.misc and these groups have heavy
traffic. There are always net.police in any group directing newbies to
the FAQ's. The advantage of a mailing list is that you can kick out people
spamming the group. Dejanews is a good thing, but just like any search engine:
crap in crap out. You need to know what to search for.
Use of mailing lists for developers to exchange information is a good way of
keeping beta-testers updated on what happens. The info from the beta testers go
back to the mailing list to give feedback to the developers. USENET tend to be
unpredictable in regarding to delivery times and are better suited for general
questions, opinions and so on. Mail is thought to be quicker and more reliable.
I'll try to have my ISP feed the linux.* hierarchy.
Regards,
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Svenn Are Bjerkem
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