Re: How to deal with people archiving your FAQ?

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Tue, 9 Aug 94 10:29:23 -0400

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Kent Landfield writes
>>Ilana Stern writes
>>>Lani Teshima-Miller writes Does anyone have statements written
>>>on their FAQs regarding the responsibility of people posting
>>>the most recent version? Can you control that? My FAQs are
>>>growing all the time--I have static sections, but some are
>>>revised on an almost monthly basis.
>>
>>Only monthly? Mine are revised biweekly! :-)
>>
>>Anyway, here's the relevant section from the FAQ with which I
>>have similar problems.
>
>This is getting almost totally out of hand here folks. Time to
>backup and take a powder...
>
>As an FAQ author and maintainer I can understand your concern for
>assuring that the data supplied to the community is the most
>current. Fine. But speaking as an archive administrator, I can
>only do so much.
[snip]

I just added the following notice to my FAQ for alt.buddha.short.fat.guy:

==================================================================
Copyright (C)1994 by Alf the Poet. All Rights Reserved.

Nobody guarantees anything at all about what you find here.

You may freely copy and distribute this document as long as you

a) keep this entire notice (spaces too!) in any copies you make
2) make no modifications (you're not that clever)
D) will receive nothing in return but the joy of sharing

Violating this requirement will result in, well, just heaps of
really bad karma. We know where you live.
==================================================================

It's enough. Once the FAQ is out there in the ether, it has it's
own destiny. Oh, sure, some of you keep FAQs that contain information
that, if incorrect or outdated, might make someone sick, cost someone
money, or spoil a little fish, but, as stated by the immortal Super
Chicken, "You knew the job was dangerous when you took it, Fred."

;-) ;-) ;-) ;-) ;-)

Alf

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