[donning asbestos suit]
I don't see too much problem with the system. The reason, in my mind
anyway, that there are some many "restrictions" is that currently
there are about 8500 newsgroups, each capable of producing a FAQ. The
maintainers of news.answers are a _volunteer_ group, who, as was
stated earlier, have other duties to attend to, such as their
livelihood. They are doing this as a public service to the community
at large and are not asking for anything in return. If you see a
problem with something, maybe some of you should volunteer your time
to help out, unless that is, you're too busy.
When I conceived the idea for my FAQ (minuet-faq), for which there
doesn't exist a group by name, and after I decided I wanted it posted
in news.answers (among other groups), I got the docs and read them. It
really wasn't that hard. I figured there was a procedure, so I read
news.answers a little more carefully for a couple weeks until they
came up. I then read them. Then read them again. Re-organized my FAQ.
Read them again. Did test postings to a local test group. Re-read the
docs. Modified my FAQ. Re-posted to the test group and finally posted
it to news.answers without the approval line. Sure, it took me a
couple weeks, and yes, it took about a week for approval, but my FAQ
was approved on the first try.
Most people who maintain FAQs are reasonably intelligent people, hence
they are the ones doing the FAQs. Therefore it should be easy for
said people to read a document and follow the rather simple, IMHO,
guidelines set forth by the maintainers. I mean, they give step by
step instructions and point you to programs that will automagically
post them for you.
I for one applaud the faq-mainers for their work. It is a thankless
job, as can be seen by the sheer number of mailings today regarding
their work. There is a lot to do, and they are some of the few people
trying to maintain some order on the Internet. Keep up the good work.
[removing flameproof suit, although I fear it's too late]
--
Chris D. Halverson Distributed Computing Services
University of Minnesota--Twin Cities
More info available at: http://www.micro.umn.edu/staff/cdh/
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