Re: Dealing with requests for faq by e-mail

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Discord (tina@quilla.tezcat.com)
Thu, 26 Jan 1995 08:41:24 -0600 (CST)


> From: Ulrich Grepel <uli@zoodle.robin.de>
> Date: Thu, 26 Jan 95 01:39:25 +0100
[other people wrote]
> > > What approaches do other people take when getting [send-me-your-FAQ]
> > > requests like this? I sometimes feel I've got a mail list going as a
> > > side business.
> >
> >
> > I used to reply to these, but now I just ignore them. I've put a note
> > in the FAQ to the effect of "I am not a mailserver" and a pointer to
> > FTP and rtfm, and that seems to have done the trick.
>
> Oh my, what's the problem with that? I've set up my system in a way that
> replying with the FAQ needs a minimum of three mouse clicks and one keystroke.

The problem with that is some of us don't have the ability to set up
ANYTHING with 3 mouse clicks and one keystroke. ;)

But seriously, I have a (ksh) script that I can use to mail the faq out.
It involves minimum work. I don't know why people ask me to mail it to
them since it is posted twice a month and the "Welcome to asd" post is
posted in between the FAQ postings, but hey, what the heck, I can type
mailfaq <email address> fairly quickly.

Anyhow, this is all it is:
----- cut here

for i in faq1 faq2 faq3 faq4 faq5
do
elm $1 < ${i}
done

----- cut here

Just put it in whatever directory you keep your FAQ parts in, replace the
list of filenames with the list of filenames you use, and make sure its
executable. (The last, for those who don't know how, is done on a Unix
system by typing chmod +x <filename>.)

If you don't have a shell account it won't do any good of course.



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