Re: Re: [NEWBIE GUIDE] For the benefit of new members

On Tue, 25 Jan 2005 17:15:37 +0000, Rory Browne <rory.browne@gmail.com> wrote: > 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. That doesn't seem like a good idea to me. I wouldn't want to take a test just because I need to resubscribe after vacation, or a change of email address. Besides that, if the test is unmonitored, well.. anyway. The Perl solution many years ago was to make a newbie list. My local Linux user group solution last year was to make a newbie list. -- Greg Donald Zend Certified Engineer http://destiney.com/