Re: [pilot-db-list] Friendly Suggestion re. basic questions

[<Uwe...@t-...>]

Am 28.11.02, 00:07:08, schrieb aji...@t-... (Hans Ajiet=20=

Holtkamp) zum Thema [pilot-db-list] Friendly Suggestion re. basic=20
questions:

> In the past few weeks there have been a number of
> new users asking some very basic questions such as
> 'How do you delete a database'
> 'How do you copy a database'
> etc.

> Now I can understand that these questions get
> on the nerves of the 'Pilot-DB team' - to which
> I count myself to be a part of - but the rather
> frustrated answers (including my own) seem to
> intimidate many potential users, especially such
> that are very new to the PalmOS - we were novices too -
> and often result in them not geting to know the beauty
> of this wonderful program!

I myself would not like the current UI to be changed.
But I see the (nonstandard) point.

It surely is possible to add the usual=20
'mark and select operation from menu' way of doing things.
I've seen it already in an other Pilot Application.
But I think it will be quite a bit of work.

It seems to me that this mailing list is becoming=20
more and more something that I would call a newsgroup.

In newsgroups you have a collection of past postings
when you newly subscribe and it's good practice, to=20
post a FAQ from time to time.

In a mailing list new subscriber don't have a clue what's
happened before they subscribed to the list.

So there's two more questions from me:

1. Would the mailing list readers think it appropriate
   to receive a FAQ from time to time?

2. Would it be better to create a newsgroup for pilot DB
   and restrict the mailing list to developers,
   doc writers, etc.

   There already is a hierarchy pilot.* so we could try and
   get something like =84pilot.applications.database.pilot-db=93
   up and running.

Greetings,
	Uwe