Re: Publishing issues

Alex Lopez-Ortiz (alopez-o@barrow.uwaterloo.ca)
Thu, 19 Jan 1995 21:59:43 -0500

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>
>> From: "J.D. Falk" <jdfalk@cais.cais.com>
>> If this becomes commonplace, who's to say who has the rights to
>> write a FAQ for a specific group, and be paid for the work? Say, for
>> example, I were to write a competing FAQ with the same topics as yours (I
>> have no intention of doing this, don't worry) and offered it to the
>> publishers for a lower price than that which they are paying you?
>
>When I first wrote my FAQ, another person on the group wrote a "counter"
>to it... I wrote them and told them I'd like to include theirs along with
>mine in the monthly reposting. Now, the "anti-" FAQ is a major part of
>what I post (one of 13 parts!)..
>
>I don't write all of them anymore, I'm just in charge of making sure they
>all fit the newsgroup, and with posting them.
>
>Now there's a question... is there a larger FAQ than the alt.devilbunnies
>FAQs? Currently stands at 2 FAQs, 11 appendices, with plans for 4 more
>appendices in the works...

The Sci.Math FAQ has 29 parts, and I think Soc.Culture.Mexican is at 30.

When I split my FAQ in so many sections I expected lots of criticism,
but on the contrary, people loved it.

It seems that each of the sections was not really connected to the other
and that the files were too long. So having each question in an article
was what was needed.

Alex

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