Dear Tom, Thanks a lot for your important points, I encourage the point of WIKI too much..., concerning the admins or moderated, how can we reach them?!
and really Greate Work @ NS3-Wiki, we hope the same here... Thanks dear, Mariam On Mon, Aug 15, 2011 at 6:16 PM, Tom Henderson <[email protected]> wrote: > > On 08/15/2011 01:45 AM, Mariam A. Moustafa wrote: > > > > Dear Teerawat, > > > > Actually I have thought in this issue for a long time :) > > > > I think, there is an admin of this list and this is his responsability!! > > > > Else we have another silly choice, what about sending this guideline > > periodically, say at the start of each month. (I may do this silly task > :( ) > > to notify the new members and review with the older. > > > > In fact the really gain from this guideline is sending the answer using > > RELPY TO ALL, this will save the answers. > > > > Kindly, if you have any other suggestions, please share with us. > > > > Thanks > > Mariam > > > > Here are a few thoughts on this topic. This issue has been around for > as long as the list itself (~15 years) and admins have tried to deal > with it through various mechanisms: > > - First-time posters bounce message > - Monthly FAQ on ns-2 sent out automatically > - Make people subscribe through a gateway web page that asks them to > follow list rules. (http://www.isi.edu/nsnam/ns/ns-dev-list.html has > done this for the developers list) > > Despite this, some people will always ask the list first, without > searching. This will be unavoidable in an unmoderated list. > > I think there are two basic options here: > 1) (moderated) more intrusive moderation of the list, and bouncing > inappropriate questions from first-time posters with some suggestions > about how they need to improve their question. This is probably nicer > for everyone on the list (improving signal to noise ratio) but is a lot > of work for the moderator. > 2) (unmoderated) keep up with some combination of what we are doing now, > perhaps with some updates from the ideas in this thread > > Unless someone or some small group of individuals wants to take on > active moderation duties (note, I do not want to do this myself), I > think that some of the ideas in this thread can be used to enhance what > has already been done; namely, an (improved) monthly FAQ/posting > guidelines reminder, also sent to new list members if possible upon > successful subscription, the first time posters bounce script, and > having people click through a web page with the posting rules, before > getting to the subscription page. > > Another thing we have been doing occasionally on ns-3 is to try to > answer some FAQs by writing the answers on a wiki page, and point people > to this wiki in the reply, rather than answering in line on the list: > http://www.nsnam.org/wiki/index.php/HOWTOs > Then, people discover the presence of this wiki. If someone wants to be > a wiki curator of an ns-2 FAQ/HOWTO, we could set that up too. > > - Tom > >
