Re: People posting here by mistake (was:Re: Problems using a wireless mouse unfer FC2)

[Karsten Wade <kwade redhat com>]

On Tue, 2004-07-27 at 08:47, Hoyt wrote:
> On Tuesday 27 July 2004 03:42 am, Telsa Gwynne wrote:
> > We get this sort of thing on the Gnome docs list. But not nearly
> > as often. I don't know why it happens so often here.
> 
> That's why I suggested asking the  people how it was that they came to _this_ 
> mail list.
> 
> I had a similar problem at my business, receiving ever-increasing phone calls 
> intended for a neighboring business with a similar name. At first, we just 
> assumed that it was name confusion, but when I asked these people how they 
> came upon my number, we were able to determine that an error in Verizon's 
> listing for 411 calls listed my number under my neighbors name. Without 
> asking, the problem would never have been solved.

Following up on this theory, I looked around for an obvious
configuration or information bug at fedora.redhat.com and
www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-docs-list, and nothing jumps out
as a reason people would be lead to this list for generic questions. 
For example, I looked to see if there was anywhere that fedora-docs-list
was described other than "participants of the Docs Project", and I
didn't find anything.

Next time we get such a question we'll have to ask how they found this
list for their answer.

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Karsten Wade, RHCE, Tech Writer
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