From: Simon Cozens <simon@...>
Date: 2002-11-07T08:46:46+09:00
Subject: Re: Handling FAQs - was "Thoughts on Ruby"

"Gavin Sinclair" <gsinclair@soyabean.com.au> writes:
> I had in this in mind.
> 
>  - Can you please sum up the question and answer so we can preserve it?
> Newcomer: OK, ...

Nice idea, but I think you'll find 90% of the time the newcomer just wants
their question answered, and may even unsubscribe when they've got the
answer they want. The answerer is the one with the goodwill, utilize that.

-- 
"It [Starbucks Coffee]'s probably filled with MIND EXPANDING DRUGS, mind you. 
Now /they're/ fun things to take of a Saturday evening. Why kick a tramp to 
death whilst high on smacky booze in order to get a mention on BBC NEWS when 
you can watch the same tramp excrete spiders from his eyelids?" - J-P