From: jhenders@jonh.wimsey.bc.ca (John Henders) Subject: Re: A plea from a FAQ maintainer Date: Fri, 25 Jun 1993 22:55:00 GMT
imp@boulder.parcplace.com (Warner Losh) writes:
>One thing that has worked well in other large volume news groups is to
>have someone that is basically the keeper of the FAQ. When someone
>posts a FAQ, his job is to post the answer, quoting directly from the
>FAQ and being polite. In other groups this seems to work well.
This is a really good idea. (IMHO). Especially once (if) a
questions group gets formed, this would be a great way of reducing the
number of similar answers to the same question. This would highly
increase the value of a questions group, nad probably insure it's usage
by both questioners and answerers, as often it's more annoying to see 50
messages with the same answer as with the same question.
I still think that breaking the faq down into smaller focused
faq's might be a good idea as well, just from the reported differences
in before/after of the lpd faq experience.
Also, the smaller faqs could be posted at staggered times, to
prevent them from showing up as one lump at smaller uucp sites.
-- John Henders GO/MU/E d* -p+ c+++ l++ t- m* s/++ g+ w+++ -x+