Re: How did *you* get into this business?

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> Here's a question I've been wondering about for some time: How and why
> do people get into the FAQ-maintaining business? I know some newsgroups
> have a formal selection process with a vote and everything, but I
> suspect this is the exception. I'd be interested in hearing how you
> became maintainers.

I started the Copyright FAQ because I was tired of answering the same
questions or correcting the same misstatements of copyright law:

- "How do I get a copyright?"
- "I have this old book. I sit stil under copyright?"
- "I don't see any copyright notice on this, so I presume it's not
copyrighted" (wrong.)
- "The Berne convention makes the US honor another country's
copyright" (wrong.)
- "Does anyone have the address for the Copyright Office?"

etc. Then it just grew.

--
Terry Carroll       | "A computer programming language is not the English
Santa Clara, CA     | language, despite the fact that English words may be
carrollt@netcom.com | used in that language."
carroll@aimnet.com  | - U.S. Patent & Trademark Office proposed Examination 
                    | Guidelines for Computer-Implemented Inventions

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