Steering novices in the right direction

[Oleg Broytmann]

On Tue, Nov 20, 2001 at 05:24:06AM -0600, Skip Montanaro wrote:
> I've lately been thinking since the correct response to many "where can I
> find ...?" questions is, "have you tried google?" or at least "have you
> searched yet?" that perhaps the footer added to the end of all
> python-list at python.org mailings should include a line like
> 
>     Ask here first: http://www.python.org/search/
> 
> or
> 
>     Before asking where something is, check Google: http://www.google.com/
> 
> Even better would be if Mailman could pick a random line out of a file to
> use as the footer.  That way you could have all sorts of interesting
> subliminal messages.
> 
> Any thoughts on the general idea of embellishing the footer?
> 
> -- 
> Skip Montanaro (skip at pobox.com - http://www.mojam.com/)

   Good idea. Something like this:

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