[ic] Pee-Poor Documentation Rant

[Bill Carr]

On Thu, 2002-07-25 at 14:18, cfm@maine.com wrote:
> I don't think the problem is the documentation, but the background that
> people bring with them.  It's always easier to blame it on someone else.
> 
> Perhaps a listing of background one should have vs what one can do:
> 
> 
> Your experience                    What you can do
> sysadmin, lots of *NIX and perl    anything you want
> 
> ... stuff in the middle
> 
> what's telnet/ssh                  complain
> 
> 
> Even if such a chart were purely anecdotal it would be useful to keep
> people from getting in over their heads.  And fun to read too.  :-)
> 
> BOFH sez maybe about line 10 of makecat should be:
> 
> exit 1; # if you find this, comment it out and proceed.
> 
> ;^>
It is in the best interest of the Interchange community to have barriers
to using and adopting the program removed not put up.

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Bill Carr
Worldwide Impact
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