RE: Beginners FAQ?? We need your help!!!
Have we considered building a Wiki to hold this information and more? As you know, a Wiki is a web site/set of pages that are instantly editable. You can add new pages and modify content.
I provide technical support for my employer and spend all day long answering questions. About a year ago, we switched to a Wiki based solution. Now when a question arrives, I can point the caller to a page which contains the exact answer because it was answered so many times. It has become rare now that a new question comes along and, when it does, that is an opportunity to create a new page or ammend an existing one. The Wiki has taken on a life of its own and is dependent on the community of folks who answer questions to continually populate it. I could imagine a Wiki for RC flying with pages and pages and pages all being populated by ... us ... the folks who like to answer questions. Instead of answering the next question in the forum, we would answer it in the Wiki and then in the future, the questioner would either find the answer on the Wiki or, if not found, give us the opportunity to enhance the Wiki or improve the linkages.
Ideally the Wiki would be hosted by RC Universe but could be hosted in other locations. I see someone, just the other day, was advertizing the existince of a new Wiki on his private site for just this kind of idea.
A static FAQ gets my thumbs down and a Wiki is just so much more powerful, easy to use and accesible by us all.
Neil