I think sending it to the list every so often, via cron isn't the best way to handle it. I've read it once, I don't see the point in getting it again. Perhaps, is the list admins were willing, it could be set up to be sent to all newbies, as part of the subscription process. To ensure that it is read by all newbies, they'd have to answer certain questions in the body of the confirmation email? The problem of newbies not knowing they are newbies, isn't overcome by cron. Any thoughts? P.S. An addition to the above, a reminder that you have to CC to php-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxx, for responses to be sent to the list might be a good idea. I've lost count of how many times I've forgotten to do this, including this time(sorry Jay), and ended up sending it only to the original sender, instead of to the list, resulting in the original sender recieving the thing twice. On Tue, 25 Jan 2005 11:22:27 -0500, Jason Barnett <jason.barnett@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Jochem Maas wrote: > > Jay Blanchard wrote: > > > ... > > Jay, great list BTW - I was thinking maybe we could drop it on a site/wiki > > or something which could also contain stuff that comes up again and again, > > or stuff that even the 6month y/o newbie finds trivial or just good stuff > > thats been condensed from the list (kind of a good practice/cool code > > repository). I know there are lots of places out there already but I think > > I think that Justin Patrin started up a wiki for PHP, but he hasn't been > on the list in a while and I can't remember what the url for his wiki > was. But he had a fair amount of useful code in there that would be a > great start for this project. > > > ,for instance, the mail archives suck for searching - and often there is > > plenty of FUD in among the cherries. someone could then send out a weekly > > NEWBIE email that points them to said site - which in turns introduces them > > to netiquette, list faqs, etc. having a Wiki type thing would relieve the > > list of lots of 'O-T' stuff on 'NEWBIE email enhancements'? > > Yeah the list is pretty high volume... it would be great if we could > help relieve the stress on the servers a bit. > > > -- > Teach a man to fish... > > NEW? | http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html > STFA | http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=php-general&w=2 > STFM | http://www.php.net/manual/en/index.php > STFW | http://www.google.com/search?q=php > LAZY | > http://mycroft.mozdev.org/download.html?name=PHP&submitform=Find+search+plugins > > -- > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > > -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
