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

Jay Blanchard wrote:

[snip] Now, perhaps, an INTERESTING project for some of us to work on would be that system: Spec: Robot subscriber to PHP-General. Reads all incoming messages. Discards anything that looks like a 'Reply:' including: Has 'Re: ' or 'Fwd: " in subject Has Message ID in-reply-to header thingies Concats Subject and body, with signatures removed. Removes all common English words Searches for remaining [key]words in php.net/faq.php If any matches, deep-link (with #xyz) to the FAQ answers. If number of remaining [key]words (above) is small, also compose a URL link to http://php.net/remaining+keywords Creates a reply email (to original poster only) suggesting that maybe they just need to check those links, but to REPLY to their post if they're STILL lost after reading all that stuff. That way, if any of us see a question that we KNOW is answered in FAQ or php.net/xyz and that is not a Reply of some kind, we can let the robot handle it. What do you think? Worth doing? Waste of time? You interested in implementing or testing it? Got a server where you control smrsh and whatnot enough to handle it? [/snip] I like it a lot. And I would be glad to put in my 0.02. As we are developing a knowledge base for our internal users and this falls along the same lines I would have to say to count me in.

I like the sound of it too. shall we crystalize what we want/decided into a new post? 1. what we want: i.e. repository of list tips/solutions etc 2. a parrot 3. where to host 4. who/where to run the parrot 5. any other business Jay maybe your the man for that job? not trying to force anything on you but I reckon we could do with a 'lead man' of some sorts to do a little coordinating and possibly just make a decision (avoid endless discusion about minutae) Also I may have a machine capable of running the parrot - its on the same subnet as nl2.php.net so connection speed is no probs but I have no idea how process intensive the parrot would be (if its too heavy I would have to decline cos there are commercial site running on the same box which expect a certain level of performance :-) ...paying customers, you get the picture!). BTW ParrotHeadPoster is a fitting name, lets keep it!