Re: How 'mature' does a faq have to be before you post to *.answers?

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mathew (mathew@mantis.co.uk)
16 Jun 1994 10:55:37 +0100

In article <199406151908.PAA27569@bronze.lcs.mit.edu>,
Aliza R. Panitz <buglady@bronze.lcs.mit.edu> wrote:
>I currently have 2 FAQs cross-posted to news.answers. For both of
>them, I let them run through a few posting cycles, gathering and
>incorporating comments, before I started crossposting to *.answers -
>I didn't want my FAQs archived for posterity before they'd weathered
>some critical review.
>
>Do other people do this kind of thing, starting a FAQ off with just a
>few groups until it's 'grown up' a bit?

Absolutely. Also, when I did a major re-write, I went through a
couple of cycles of posting the new FAQ to just the ordinary newsgroup,
whilst continuing with the unrevised version in news.answers.

For the most recent revision, I re-wrote the whole thing in HTML. I
didn't convert the HTML to ASCII, however, until I'd stopped receiving
corrections regarding the versions on WWW.

> If so, how do you decide
>when your FAQ is ready for 'prime time'?

Well, once you can go a week without anyone commenting on it, it's
definitely ready for news.answers. Of course, some FAQs inherently
draw more comment than others.

mathew

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