Or how about this analogy:
You invite the whole world to your party but some people can't
come because they don't have transportation. Someone offers
to provide transportation, at a reasonable price. When these
people get there some of the food is stale.
My main concern is that Walnut Creek makes it very clear to the
people that some of the "food" is stale. And they tell people
how to get fresh food, e.g. here's what I have in my Signature
and Finger FAQ:
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If this article is over two months old then there is probably an updated
version of it in all the usual archives. Please get the latest version
from one of these places:
World Wide Web (the nicest format for online reading!):
http://www.cis.ohio-state.edu/hypertext/faq/usenet/signature_finger_faq/faq.html
Anonymous FTP:
ftp://rtfm.mit.edu/pub/usenet/news.answers/signature_finger_faq
Email:
Send mail to mail-server@rtfm.mit.edu containing the following:
send usenet/news.answers/signature_finger_faq
UUCP:
uunet!/archive/usenet/news.answers/signature_finger_faq
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I hope Walnut Creek puts some generic instructions for getting
up to date FAQs on there disk - does anyone know if they do?
-- /\_/\ Nancy McGough ( o.o ) Infinite Ink > ~ < http://www.jazzie.com/ii/ -OR- http://www.best.com/~ii/
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