From: Peter H. Coffin (hellsop_at_ninehells.com)
Date: Mon Mar 24 2003 - 13:43:34 PST
On Mon, Mar 24, 2003 at 01:34:46PM -0800, Victor Rehorst wrote:
> I'm thinking of creating a "welcome" page that would be linked via a
> big, bold message on the NTLK front page. The "welcome" page would
> be something like the NewtonNewbieGuide[1] but less structured.
> Hopefully its placement on the NTLK front page would capture people
> *before* they subscribe to the list and point them to the place to
> answer their question. Maybe something like a manually-maintained
> FAQ-O-Matic, if anyone has ever encountered one of these. I'll try to
> draft up a page like this on my train ride home (a good time to master
> using nHTML).
Even a big recommendation that a new subscriber read the entire FAQ on
chuma, as listed in the blurb on the bottom of *every* NTLK message
would answer the vast majority of the newbie questions. That's what I
started with, and I ended up knowing more about a platform that I didn't
even own a unit of (prior to purchasing anything) at the time, than
some palm owners who'd owned their units for a couple of years did about
their own. It's an amazingly complete overview.
--
94. When arresting prisoners, my guards will not allow them to stop and grab a
useless trinket of purely sentimental value.
--Peter Anspach's list of things to do as an Evil Overlord
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