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From: tinkelman@ccavax.camb.com
Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript
Subject: Re: Automatic posting v 2
Message-ID: <19020.25f59f23@ccavax.camb.com>
Date: 8 Mar 90 04:54:11 GMT
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In article <152@heaven.woodside.ca.us>, glenn@heaven.woodside.ca.us (Glenn 
Reid) writes:
> I have two suggestions, if we go with the routine posting:
> 
> 	1.  It be posted no more often than once a month.
> 	2.  The answers to ALL questions be:
> 		a) one line long, or
> 		b) pointers to "real" information
> 
> The key to this is going to be to keep it short, concise, short, accurate,
> short, helpful, non-partisan, and short.  

I'll second that.  (Or, maybe it's ``I'll third that.'')  I think it's
important that we state the goal and keep it in mind.  My understanding of
the goal is to reduce the number of repetitive postings of common questions.

A posting like the one Glenn suggests will be enough for people with both a
question and enough net-experience (or common sense and courtesy) to look
around for the answer before posting.  I'm afraid that people lacking those
qualities will post no matter what sort of ``routine posting'' we have.
-- 
Bob Tinkelman, Cambridge Computer Associates, Inc., 212-425-5830              
bob@ccavax.camb.com  or ...!uunet!ccavax!bob