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From: pdg@ihdev.UUCP (P. D. Guthrie)
Newsgroups: net.followup,net.news.group
Subject: Re: net.doc
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Date: Sun, 17-Nov-85 16:52:49 EST
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In article <264@ivax.icdoc.UUCP> iwm@icdoc.UUCP (Ian Moor) writes:
>In article <854@lsuc.UUCP> dave@lsuc.UUCP (David Sherman) writes:
>>People are suggesting that we have a net.doc for every
>>UNIX neophyte to be able to use to ask questions to the net.
>>Most questions you have can be answered by someone relatively
>>close to you, and should not be sent around the world or even
>>the continent. Netnews is a scarce resource, and if people
>>What I do when I have a simple question is one of the following,
>>in progression:
>>	- ask a local person who's likely to know the answer
>
Quite right!!
>net.docs could have as a starter the notes written for students starting
>to use unix. 
>
Yes.  I believe the whole idea behind net.docs is NOT to compete with
net.unix, or your local guru, but to provide a distinct place for
DOCUMENTATION to be posted, much as in the way that sources are posted
to net.sources.  I think that every site, especially universities, have
collected over the years documentation on every aspect of computing,
from "How to install new device drivers on UNIX" to "How to boot your
IBM PC".  Now, if we had a place to post these, then in immitation of
net.sources, those people that see a use for these papers could save
them.  I actually think that mod.docs would be a better idea though, 
just to keep the amount of illiterate trash down (no flames about my
spelling or grammar - this is a posting *not* a published paper).  I
remember seeing a volunteer to be moderator, so if he would step forward
again, and if net.powers-that-be will not create mod.docs, why not have
a mailing list, so those poor objecting whiners need not be subjected to
having to hit the 'n' key when the create newsgroup message comes
around.

					Paul Guthrie
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