>If your FAQ is too big to be reposted monthly, I'd suggest that Usenet may not
>be the appropriate distribution form. You could try stripping it back so that
>it's short enough to post on a more regular basis, and making the full version
>available via ftp or www. Three months is way too long between drinks!
Why "strip it back"? There's no reason to delete information that's
already in the FAQ if it's useful.
The easiest thing to do is to partition your FAQ into smaller
sections--like creating chapters in a book. If you don't want to
bombard the usenet with all FAQ sheets at once, you can rotate the
posting schedule--two files per week throughout a four-week or
one-month schedule, for example.
If you *really* think there is only need to post once every three
months, take a good look at what you have. Are there parts of the FAQ
that should be posted more frequently? Then do so.
Finally, you can always post a meta-FAQ that announces the existence
and location of your very large once-every-3-month FAQ. Post the
meta-FAQ twice a month or once a month so you get less "Where's the
FAQ?" queries.
Lani Teshima-Miller (teshima@uhunix.uhcc.Hawaii.edu) "Sea Hare" o/ /_/_/
UH School of Library & Info Studies. "Whatever the cost of our o|<0_0>------*
libraries, the price is cheap compared to that of an ignorant \=^-| |_| |
nation." -Walter Cronkite [R.a.b.bit--FAQ Maintainer: "Think Ink!"] \_B}\_B}
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