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Welcome to the faq-maintainers mailing list. This document explains
the purpose of the lists and some administrative details. In addition
to being sent to all new subscribers, it is sent to the lists themselves
approximately every ninety days to refresh people's memories.
[A fairly recent copy of this document can be obtained via anonymous
FTP as rtfm.mit.edu:/pub/faq-maintainers/mailing-lists-policy
If you do not have access to anonymous FTP, you can retrieve it by
sending email to mail-server@rtfm.mit.edu with the command "send
faq-maintainers/mailing-lists-policy" in the message.]
********Help commands (including unsubscribe)
The FAQ Maintainers Request <FAQ-Maintainers-Request@consensus.com>
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*** Note: Do not send unsubscribe requests to the FAQ Maintainers
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******** What are these mailing lists?
The faq-maintainers and faq-maintainers-announce lists are primarily
intended for discussion among (faq-maintainers), or announcements for
(faq-maintainers-announce), people on the net who maintain FAQ
(Frequently Asked Questions) postings. However, subscribers are not
required to maintain FAQs; i.e., anyone interested in issues related to
maintaining FAQs is welcome.
Issues discussed on the faq-maintainers list in the past have included:
formatting FAQs; how to handle comments about specific commercial
products in FAQs; and using software to assist in the posting and
maintenance of FAQ postings. Although a wide variety of topics are
discussed, using the list for discussions which do not specifically
pertain to FAQ maintenance is discouraged. The maintainers of the list
may occasionally request that a discussion be moved elsewhere, when they
feel that it has strayed too far from the theme of the list.
The faq-maintainers-announce list is for announcements only. For
example, announcements which would be appropriate include the creation
of a new mirror site from which archived *.answers FAQs can be
obtained, or the release of a software tool which is particularly
useful for FAQ maintainers. The faq-maintainers-announce mailing list
was made a moderated one as of April 1994, to prevent unnecessary
traffic which didn't qualify as announcements.
******** How busy and how large are these lists?
The faq-maintainers list has several hundred subscribers. Traffic
tends to come in bursts -- it averages 3-4 messages per day, but
during a burst there may be as many as several dozen messages within a
few hours, and in between such bursts, there may be a week of no
messages at all.
The faq-maintainers-announce list also has several hundred of its own
subscribers; in addition, email approved for it will automatically
include everyone subscribed to the faq-maintainers list by default.
Traffic on it is very, very low (e.g., it is not unheard of for six
months to pass with no messages sent to the list except for a periodic
copy of this document).
******** Archives
You should be aware that any messages sent to the faq-maintainers list
after December 31, 1993 are publicly available. You can access the
archives in rtfm.mit.edu:/pub/faq-maintainers via anonymous FTP. See
the README file in that directory for details on archive format.
******** Where to find help with maintaining a posting
This section doesn't really "belong" here, but since the question
keeps coming up, perhaps this will help.
If you want to ask questions specifically of the moderators of
*.answers, please send the question to news-answers-request@mit.edu
and not to these mailing lists.
More information about submitting postings for *.answers and about
auto-faq, post_faq, and the mail-to-news server run by the *.answers
moderators can be found in the "*.answers submission guidelines" at
rtfm.mit.edu:/pub/usenet/news.answers/news-answers/guidelines
Two World Wide Web sites which maintain lists of FAQ maintenance tools
and information resources are David A. Lamb's page of FAQ Maintenance
Aids, at
http://www.qucis.queensu.ca/FAQs/FAQaid/
and Infinite Ink's Finding and Writing FAQs and Periodic Postings, at
(primary) http://www.jazzie.com/ii/internet/faqs.html
(mirror) http://www.best.com/~ii/internet/faqs.html
******** Policy concerning removal from the lists
The list owners reserve the right to remove individuals from the lists
under extraordinary circumstances. It is difficult to anticipate
every reason why someone might be removed from the lists; in general,
behavior which is substantially disruptive to the list and which is
known by the perpetrator to be inappropriate may lead to removal.
An individual who is removed from the lists will be notified of the
removal by the list owners. If he or she wishes to appeal the
removal, a poll will be taken of the current membership of the
faq-maintainers list. If 10% or more of the current membership
supports reinstatement, the individual will be returned to the lists.
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