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Date:	Thu, 21 Nov 2002 21:02:05 PST7
From:	xowatson@concentric.net
Reply-To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
Subject:	SCOUG-Help: Re: MustHave List

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On 21 Nov 2002 at 19:25, J. R. Fox wrote:
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> I'll see if I can scrounge up the URLs for you.

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Sorry for the rant. Couldn't help myself. Delete now if you expected
something useful. Oh, wait, here's a must-haveI don't remember
seeing on these lists -- pmxeyes. Great fun.

I have lots of cubbyholes with stored snippets, articles, URLs, which I
can sometimes find, sometimes not. I sometimes wonder if we hide
these things we often need because we're all so smart we don't really
need the tips, and aloof to the fact that some folks might need it; or
we're trying to protect our exalted status as high priests of a declining
religion, purposely withholding the "truth" from the masses; or if we're
all just disorganized slobs. Seems like the reasonable thing would be
to collect and publish tips, links, articles of value to new users, old
users who haven't encountered someone else's situation, or old users
who have forgotten how they solved old problems. We used to have
Warp Pharmacy, but it disappeared. Why would the community have
allowed a valuable resource like that to die? VOICE tried to revive it
with their Warp Doctor project, which began with grand ambitions but
currently has a very short list of a few good articles. We should have a
resource where Jordan could go to a list and click "Camera" and all
sorts of articles, tips, tricks and such would be presented to help him
solve his questions.

Seems like scoug-help would be a good forum to decide how our
nuggets should be organized and published, and scour the countryside
for the material to publish, and maintain it for the good of the
community. I think others have failed because they tried to make it too
hard. We don't need a one-button whiz-bang app, just a centralized
place to organize some tips.

Or maybe we don't deserve to have it that easy. Remember, there's
no nuggets on a chicken.

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