The larger question is:
How should I deal with a suggestion of information to be included in
my FAQ from a person/organization who stands to profit financially
from the information?
I'm not asking about factual information -- in general, I'm happy to
include factual information that I receive from businesses about their
products/services. How do I deal with subjective information from and
about a business?
The specific question is:
I maintain the FAQs for alt.support.big-folks. I include contact
information and brief descriptions of several magazines of interest to
large people. Most of my information comes from other readers of the
group; I have not read all the magazines myself. The editor for one
of the magazines that is mentioned in my FAQ sent me email with his
suggestion for what I should say about his magazine. He appears to
feel that the information in the FAQ is unfair to his magazine.
(He found an old version of the FAQ, in which the reviewer stated that
she thought the magazine was a little sleazy. This comment was
removed in subsequent versions of the FAQ because other readers of
a.s.b-f said they thought it was unfair. It is not clear if the
editor understands that the "sleazy" comment has been removed in more
recent versions of the FAQ.)
Should I tell him to zark off? Should I try to integrate his
information with the information currently in the FAQ (this is hard,
since I haven't read the magazine in question)? Should I include the
current review and his information (this grants a lot of space to this
one magazine)? Should I replace the information currently in the FAQ
with his information? Should I have some kind of "advertising"
policy?
How have other maintainers dealt with this question?
Sasha Wood
sasha@cs.cmu.edu
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