Re: A FAQ

Mary Fisher wrote:
"Bruce Sinclair" <bruce.sinclair@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:ZYCye.13099$U4.1585179@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

In article <050720051102264407%shiver@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, SHIVER ME TIMBERS <shiver@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Mary Fisher <mary.fisher@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
We have a perfectly good system already.


Matt you are the second person within a year who has tried that.

Now I'm just a lurker but I agree with Mary.

If it ain't broke why try to fix it. 

FAQs are not usually there for the "old hands" ... they are mostly for the
new comers.

Imagine if this were you ... would you find it useful then ? ... I know I
would have :)


No, it's been far more useful to me (when I was a newcomer) to have good natured, direct, individual replies to my questions, which also give the opportunity of asking secondary questions.

Most groups have a FAQ. Very often, it stops the 412 th thread titled "my
chicken is sick". At worst, it cuts the repeats down a bit.


I doubt we've has anything like as many as that - but a FAQ wouldn't answer that question without having all the possible symptoms listed, geographical location, feeding, age and breed and other variables.

And how many initial posts contain that information Mary....
Most simply say the bird is sick, list some symptoms and leave out where they are, climate, age, feeding and breed. As you know, many diseases attach either young or mature birds and not both.




This group doesn't have a huge amount of traffic but it has residential experts who are very willing to reply appropriately and at once.

Yes, and would it not be great to have a list of links for wormers breed descriptions etc handy to point the person to. Instead of the usual response of "I don't know what is available in 'insert country here' consult a vet".



Then there's the matter of who orgnises the FAQ, would it be you?

Actually, I would not have suggested it if I were not prepared to take the time to maintain it.



Mary 


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