Assistance for newbies?

James Kosin jkosin at beta.intcomgrp.com
Wed Jul 7 17:49:06 UTC 2004


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Geoffrey Leach wrote:
| Recently on the list,
|
|  o Lots of posters new to Linux (good)
|  o With problems getting started (bad)
|  o That might have been avoided with the right info (worse)
|
| What's missing, IMHO, is a regular posting of a "Help for Newbies",
| which should also go out to new subscribers and be mentioned on the
| trailer that's at the end of every post.
|
| Such a posting would cover how to search the list, point to the FAQs
| and other important info and (most important!) point to ER's page on
| how to ask questions.
|
| Thoughts?
|
|

Sounds like an excellent IDEA.

But, one question.....
~   How many people actually read the current footer on every message?

Thanks,
James Kosin

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