[SC-Help] Re: I know you're tired of hearing this, but ... re FAQs

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"WazoO" <nobody at devnull.spamcop.net> wrote in message 
news:da239e$gck$1 at news.spamcop.net...
> "Mike Easter" <MikeE at ster.invalid> wrote in message
> news:da1seo$cnh$1 at news.spamcop.net...
>> WazoO wrote:
>> > What (few) questions need to show up there?
>> > FAQ, Forum, newsgroups already linked to at
>> > the top of the page ....
>> >
>> > http://forum.spamcop.net/forums/index.php?act=home
>>
>> I'm not clear on integrating that page with the 
>> others at the forum.
>
> Maybe take another look at my 6-24 post in this 
> thread.  The 'portal'
> page being an entrance point .... as I stated, the 
> Forum is but one
> link off of this page.
>
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Can the Peanut Gallery chime in one more time?

How about just finding everything that presently 
exists, and setting it aside in apprpriately named 
subject folders?
   Draw the relevant site parts into you machne, 
starting from the SC Entry Page, and start all over 
again, pretending to be:
1.  the newbie recently described, and
2.  the experienced user who just needs to reference 
something? and maybe
3.  Just be someone who wants to learn about SC and 
what it's about?

Then start an outline/flow chart, from scratch, 
initially ignoring anything that's aleady been written. 
Make it two columns (not three).  Try to keep the 
format more like a tutorial, with a detailed 
Introduction.
   Since many newbie questions are short responses, 
many could be right there on that page in bookmarks, 
maybe some links to "more" if the reader wants, that 
eventually lead into the other chart somewhere.
   Once that all exists, then copy/paste/modify/add new 
data where it's relevant, until all the conditionals 
and data areas are filled in.
   Then share the INITIAL work for "rfc" if you will, 
and when it's fleshed out, go away and come back and 
present the final outcome, offering only further public 
comment at the milestones as each approaches.

   As for the problems with Ironport et al not making 
things available, I'd tell them to shit or get off the 
pot and if nothing better was forthcoming, I'd go put 
the crap on my own site, and just hold it to my chest 
until some poor soul needed it.  Word of mouth would 
get it pretty rapidly deployed for you, and a monthly 
or weekly mention in the groups would keep it in view. 
Better than nothing for something that has had such a 
huge amount of productive effort already invested in 
it.
  Most of what already exists is well written, just 
poorly presented, IMO.  So, the "meat" of all that 
can/could be pulled in where and when needed if done so 
carefully.  No sense reinventing any wheels when a few 
mods here and there might do just as well or better.

I sincerely wish I could offer more than simple 
desctuctive criticism, which this borders on, but I am 
disabled and simply too unreliable to take on anything 
of that magnitude.  Otherwise I'd try to show you what 
I'm talking about.
   I am still pretty analytical though, and good at 
critiquing <g> what's already been written.  But who 
isn't?  <G>

My two cents, adjusted for inflation, 69 dollars.

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