How about this?  The old wording was:

Please subscribe to the ros-users mailing list to stay on top of the latest ROS news, and feel free to have a look at the ros-users archive.

However, please keep in mind that the mailing list should not be used as the first step in requesting for help, but rather ROS Answers, as described below (and in this related question).

My proposed wording is:

ROS Answers should be used as the first step in requesting help, as described below (and in this related question).

To stay on top of the latest ROS news, subscribe to the ros-users mailing list, and feel free to have a look at the ros-users archive.


Here we present the right way to do things first, followed by the information about the mailing list.   

If you're just skimming the page as it is now, the first thing you see is the mailing list, and you have to read the 2nd paragraph to find out that's the wrong thing to do.

Also, in the FAQ, we could change:


My question isn't answered here; what do I do?

to:

My question isn't answered here; what do I do?

If no one objects in the next day or so, I'll go ahead and make these changes.

-Jon



On Sat, Apr 20, 2013 at 3:31 AM, Claudio Carbone <cla_carbone@tiscali.it> wrote:


Christian Dornhege <dornhege@informatik.uni-freiburg.de> wrote:
>
>I don't really have an idea how to make people follow those things
>without forcing them to read this before posting (which would be hugely
>annoying).

By removing the ros-users ml from the help/support section I suppose. Cite it as a dev/maintenance focused ml rather.

Claudio
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