Re: FAQ Accuracy and Content

Elliotte Rusty Harold (elharo@shock.njit.edu)
Thu, 15 Dec 94 10:19:55 EST

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> |From: r.boys@genie.geis.com
> |Date: Wed, 7 Dec 94 22:18:00 UTC
>
> |I am interested in any issues or problems related to wrong information in
> |FAQs especially any consequences, even if minor. Or even if it doesn't
> |matter.
>
> Inaccuracy of fact will likely only hurt on a short-term basis unless it
> is libelous or slanderous or if incorrect information actually leads someone
> to endanger or harm themselves through following it. Even then it need not
> be problematic to the FAQ-creator unless someone pursues the matter legally.
>

I'm a little worried that one of my FAQs which includes reasonable prices
for new and used equipment may have induced some people to buy at higher
prices than they needed to when it got several months out of date.

> tyagi nagasiva
> tyagi@houseofkaos.abyss.com
> (maintaining the 'Kreeeping Oooze FAQs' of alt.magick and beginning some
> construction on various particular FAQs for organizations quite aside
> from Usenet -- one a TinyMuck, another an online networking organization)
>

Elliotte Rusty Harold
elharo@shock.njit.edu

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