*.answers guidelines update: no specific body text format requirements

Jonathan I. Kamens (jik@security.ov.com)
Thu, 2 Dec 1993 09:41:54 -0500

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I must confess that I have not been closely following the discussion
on this list about FAQ formats; I simply don't have the time.
However, my opinion that the *.answers guidelines should not require
FAQ maintainers to use a specific format for their text remains the
same, and I believe that it remains the majority opinion among the
current posters to *.answers.

In order to make this policy clear, I have (in response to a
suggestion from Steve Summit) added this text near the beginning of
the "*.answers submission guidelines":

> B. What the guidelines DON'T specify
>
> These guidelines DO NOT specify a specific, required format for
> the bodies of FAQ postings. Postings in *.answers are not
> required to adhere to "Digest Message Format" format (Internet RFC
> 1153), or MIME (RFC 1341), or HTML, or SGML, or any other text
> format, standard or otherwise.
>
> This omission is intentional. Forcing all *.answers postings to
> adhere to a specific format would dissuade many FAQ maintainers
> from submitting their postings to *.answers. Such a result would
> be in direct contradiction to the chartered purpose of *.answers;
> therefore, FAQ maintainers are free to choose whatever format they
> want (assuming that it is human-readable) for the bodies of their
> postings.

Jonathan Kamens | OpenVision Technologies, Inc. | jik@security.ov.com

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