Re: Answering frequently asked questions

[Dave Horsfall <daveh@ci.com.au>]

On Fri, 19 Dec 2003, Tony Earnshaw wrote:

> I know there's been a lot of work done on the FAQ, mostly by Kurt.
> Perhaps an index or search mechanism might help - don't know whether
> that's possible with Faq-O-Matic. I still get the best answers to
> questions by searching through the list postings on my harddisk
> (severely curtailed by my having wiped out everything before May last).

Exactly; you have to pretty well know the answer before asking the
question.

And yes, the archives are much more valuable, because they tend to be
phrased as a simple mortal would ask them.

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