Help resources for wine-users mailing list

[André Hentschel]

Austin English schrieb:
> 2009/7/26 Frédéric Delanoy <frederic.delanoy at gmail.com>:
>> Over and over, I see help requests on wine-users with responses like "installed latest wine", "read FAQ section x.y", ...
>>
>> Wouldn't it be useful to send a regular reminder (like every month, and on subscription)?
>> This would contain:
>> - how to upgrade to latest version
>> - link to FAQ
>> - link to bugzilla + how to look for dups before creating new bugs
>> - <everything useful>
>>
>> This would avoid countless identical responses to common problems, and help reduce
>> traffic on wine-users, hence concentrating on "difficult" problems.
> 
> Keep in mind that most of the traffic now is on the forums (traffic
> exploded after adding it). There's already a sticky saying to read the
> FAQ...we could add a second sticky with a few basic questions/answers,
> but I'm not sure how much good it would do.
> 
if a user is too lazy to update or to read the FAQ, i think a reminder wouldnt help.

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Best Regards, André Hentschel