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From: ras@blade.UUCP (R.A. Schnitzler)
Newsgroups: comp.emacs
Subject: Stock answers suggestion (was (none))
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Date: 2 Feb 88 15:46:41 GMT
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Posting-Front-End: GNU Emacs 18.41.4 of Fri May 22 1987 on blade (berkeley-unix)


How about someone with ftp and archive-server software setting up a
self-serve database of commonly asked emacs (or other) questions and
answers.  Information on how to use it could be put in the new-users
stuff, and could also be periodically reposted (it's not very long).
Similar stuff could be done with more advanced questions as well as
the simple ones; questions about bringing emacs up on various
machines, etc, as well as the inevitable flow control question.
Another section could contain user-contributed *.el packages.  

This might reduce the redundant postings to questions, thoughts,
ideas, etc, that need group effort, attention, or exposure, saving the
friendly experts from continually wading through and answering the
same (important) questions.

Someday, perhaps we chide people to "RTFM, CTFA (check the archives),
*then* ask."

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