How exactly are most FAQ's maintained? Does the maintainer accept submissions,
generate content themselves, or ???
In article <88hpba$o6l$1_at_nnrp1.deja.com>, kevinator_ca_at_my-deja.com says...
>
>This is probably the problem. Most people don't search the newsgroup
>before they post. but the real question is, who wants maintain an FAQ?
>
>kevin
>
>In article <%Gdp4.7719$uc.167940_at_nnrp4.clara.net>,
> "Dave Wotton" <Dave.Wotton_at_dwotton.nospam.clara.co.uk> wrote:
>>
>> Alex Hudghton wrote in message
><38a3e8e4.6733231_at_news.freeserve.net>...
>> [snip]
>> >I guess most of them don't realise that its really helpful to find
>out
>> >where you can get information from (manuals, web sites, magazines
>etc)
>> >because there will come a time, when they have a real job, that
>> >newsnet is of no use at all.
>>
>> Although I agree with (almost) all that Alex, Sybrand, Kenneth and
>others
>> have said on this issue, I disagree with Alex's assertion above. I
>find
>> the newsgroups extremely useful when all other avenues have failed
>(and I
>> do try them all!). But the principle remains - there's a lot of
>experts
>> out there who are replying to posts voluntarily, everyone should
>endeavour
>> to respect their good nature by doing some homework first. Using
>Dejanews
>> power search (http://www.dejanews.com/home_ps.shtml) or something
>similar
>> would answer about 80% of the questions regularly posted here.
>>
>> Dave.
>> --
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>>
>>
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Received on Fri Feb 18 2000 - 14:48:18 CST
