Re: [cobalt-users] "Read me first" - second draft.

["Rob Evans" <robe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

From: "Dom Latter" <d.latter@xxxxxxx>

> I've tried to incorporate most of the feedback I received, for which,
thanks.
>
> The Cobalt Users Mailing list meta-FAQ.
> =======================================
> Not so much an FAQ but a guide to how to get your FAQs and IAQs answered.

Question: do you spell FAQ out when you use it or do you say it as a word
(pronounced "fack") - in which case it would be "a FAQ", rather than "an
FAQ"?

> 0.  Do not be afraid to ask questions.  There are helpful people here.
> Nobody was born with this knowledge - and we are all still learning.
>
> 1.  There's ways of annoying those helpful people, and there's ways of
> getting the most from them.  This is what this guide is primarily about.

Excuse my correction of the grammar, but I believe that might read better
as:
"1.  There are ways of annoying those helpful people, and there are ways of
getting the most from them.  The latter is what this guide is primarily
about."

Or, you might use the following in place of the second sentence:
"Avoiding the former and achieving the latter is what this guide is
primarily about."

[SNIP]

> 3.  The chances are that you are not the first person to have asked your
> question.  In the case of Cobalt's products, the answers are archived in
> the Knowledge Base and in the mailing list archives.  Check those
resources,
> and learn how to search the Web for answers on non-Cobalt specific
questions.
> Go to http://list.cobalt.com/mailman/listinfo/cobalt-users

The last two sentences might be better as:
"To check those resources go to
http://list.cobalt.com/mailman/listinfo/cobalt-users,
and learn to search the Web for answers on non-Cobalt specific questions."

[SNIP]

> 4.3. Do not post in HTML.  This really winds some people up.  There are
> many reasons, not least of which is that for people subscribed to the
> list digest, it appears as raw HTML, and in other words is practically
> unreadable.  If people can't read it, they certainly won't reply to it.

Because Microsoft calls it "Rich Text", it might be worth making the first
sentence:
"4.3  Do not post in HTML (sometimes called Rich Text)."

[SNIP]

--
Rob Evans

P.S. I wish to congratulate you, Dom, on a great effort.  I do hope you will
accept my comments as helpful to the cause.  I've tried hard to follow the
"rules"!

P.P.S. I almost missed this item because I have my filters set to discard
mail on this list that contains "RaQ" but not "Qube" - since I only have
Qubes and want to limit the amount of mail I have to wade through.   Your
example under 4.1 caused it to be deleted, and I only caught it because of
one of the responses.