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  Monthly FAQ for Debian-user mailing list "Andrew M.A. Cater" <amacater@einval.com> - 2021-10-01 18:50 +0200
    Re: Monthly FAQ for Debian-user mailing list The Wanderer <wanderer@fastmail.fm> - 2021-10-04 13:40 +0200

#240738 — Monthly FAQ for Debian-user mailing list

debian-user is a mailing list provided for support for Debian users,
and to facilitate discussion on relevant topics.

Some guidelines which may help explain how the list works:

* The language on this mailing list is English. There may be other mailing
  lists that are language-specific for example debian-user-french

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On 2021-10-01 at 12:39, Andrew M.A. Cater wrote:

> debian-user is a mailing list provided for support for Debian users, 
> and to facilitate discussion on relevant topics.

A suggestion to make this monthly posting more useful: perhaps consider
adding a revision number and/or date?

I don't want to miss noticing changes when the FAQ has been updated or
revised, but I'm not necessarily going to be in a position to be able to
readily notice when that has happened. (This time I was, because I
happened to have a copy of last month's posting ready to hand and it's
short enough to fit all on one page without scrolling for me at my
display resolution, but neither of those is guaranteed to be the case
for a lot of people.)

Another mailing list of which I was a member, before it shut down this
summer after years of operation, had a similar monthly FAQ posting; the
posted FAQ included a version number, including I think a revision date.
(I'd have to check, but I think it may even have included a "what's new
in this version" at the top, if not a per-version changelog. Either of
those could be overkill here.)

That's certainly not a universal practice, but I found it useful there,
enough so that the lack of it has now stood out to me enough here that I
am now making this suggestion.

-- 
   The Wanderer

The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one
persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all
progress depends on the unreasonable man.         -- George Bernard Shaw

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