Re: How did you get into this business?

Rockn_Robin (rymabry@mo.net)
Sat, 03 Jun 1995 23:33:10 -0500

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> At 11:07 PM 6/2/95 EDT, Pat Berry wrote:
> Here's a question I've been wondering about for some time: How and why
> do people get into the FAQ-maintaining business?
> FAQ: Windows 95 (only 3 weeks old and up from 7 questions to 35)
>
A new mailing list forum called WIN-95 "Give & Take" started in early May
(late April) of this year (1995) to discuss problems and issues concerning
users of WINDOWS 95 preview/beta. Within a short two weeks, came
the inevitable *discussion* about what is the focus of this group and why
do we keep answering the same questions over and over again.

Since I like to be part of the solution and not the problem (and had had
many years experience in User Support) I offered to scan the list's first
two week's archives (almost 2 meg) and develop a "quick & dirty" FAQ.

With the support and encouragement of others that FAQ has been refined
and updated continously since then. It is now available:

- in Ascii or HTML format from the listserver for the 1,300 members
of the WIN95 "Give & Take" (from initially a couple of hundred) ,

- available on one of the member's web page and pointers are on
a few other web sites

- and I get at least a half-dozen request each day for a copy from
news groups where I've posted pointers (I can't seem to figure out
how to post a 50k (900 line) file successfully to the relevant groups

Last week, at the encouragement of several people I submitted the
win95 FAQ for approval by the *.answer people.

So I'm a "newbie" to the faq-maintainers group.

Regard

Rock'n Robin ...> rymabry@MO.NET (or) rhubbard@MO.NET

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