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Re: [hylafax-users] Problem when sending from 2 fax on the same line at the same time



"Lee Howard" <faxguy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

In my opinion the relatively recent direction that the hylafax.org website has taken is at fault here, as anyone can write "official-looking content"... and this kind of misleading only devalues everything else associated with it.

Thanks for your feedback. The other way of looking at it, of course, is that _everyone_ can write "official-looking content"! ;-)


I'm sure many of us understand the pros and cons of community documentation projects such as wikipedia these days. I believe the pros are more significant than the cons. Quite frankly it doesn't matter _WHO_ writes the content, it can always be in error, and just as with source code, with many eyes all errors are small. We've seen an ecouraging number of people improving/correcting hylafax.org documentation, and we hope the trend will continue as people gradually learn that they are actually able to edit the content. As for misleading/devaluing content, we trust that people will on average contribute accurate, useful information but the trust is not absolute! Every single update to the site since its launch passes at least two levels of editorial review and occasionally changes are either reversed or revised in collaboration with the author.

The page you cite actually makes Creative Modem Blaster modems appear "officially" sanctioned and tested when such is not the case. Neither Creative nor Rockwell/Conexant participate here (whether in-person or by proxy) to give that kind of assurance to HylaFAX users.

The page in question was migrated from the HylaFAX wiki (which will soon be decommissioned), and lives in the Community section of the hylafax.org site:


http://www.hylafax.org/content/Community

This section is more of a free-for-all, and subject to much less editorial review than any other section of the site. Perhaps there's a way to make this more obvious, without restricting people's freedom to contribute whatever they like. We've made a preliminary change that tries to make that more clear.

-Darren

PS - If you're a list subscriber reading this email right now, and you've found a certain section of the site lacking, outdated or outright wrong, please feel free to register an account on hylafax.org and make the changes yourself!


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