Okay, so I'm a *little* far behind in my mail...between being gone for a
week and a half and getting sick, I've had a lot to catch up on. :)
My *first* FAQ was the rec.arts.sf.* introduction, I'm fairly sure. That
one, I got into just after the rec.arts.sf-lovers reorg (summer '91, ah
what memories; aka Usenet Olympics '91, all kudos to Scott-who-wrote-it).
Everyone kept being unsure that people would remember or understand the
breakdown, and finally I offered to post an introduction that would help
during the transition period, with all the charters included. The offer
was accepted, I wrote one, and posted it. And, um, well, I never stopped
posting it. What I did do was expand out into also keeping track of
(well, being told of, more precisely) other newsgroups that might be of
interest to sf fans, and then into the mailing lists that are available
(althoguh I haven't much in the way of those). It's continued being posted,
and it continues to be read, so I keep posting it.
My second FAQ, done around the same time I think, was the killfile FAQ. I'd
started reading news.software.readers, kept seeing some of the same
questions. I didn't know diddly about how killfiles worked, and I looked
in the man page to figure it out. I learned a bit out of there, and learned
I didn't know diddly about regexps (at the time...I've gotten better). I
asked Jonathan Kamens for help, because he'd helped me with a thing or two
besides that; he agreed to read and correct the thing I was writing up to
clarify killfile writing. Voila, the FAQ was born.
The third isn't mine at all; Jonathan was going offnet for a while, or
planning to, and wanted someone else to do the posting for all of his
periodic posts. I offered to take news-newusers-intro; it's low-maintenance,
as there isn't actually any _questions_ answered. The only thing I have
to keep up on is which FAQs are posted in how many different variations.
(And, er, if some of you want to check that I've got your posts listed
correctly...) I'm going to have to add one thing, though; I'd like to find
the URLs for the HTMLized FAQ archives that are out there and add those.
The fourth, not yet posted to *.answers, was simply me thinking that
alt.deryni needed a FAQ to try to control the number of posts that asked
the same thing, and also to serve as sort of a central resource. I've not
been maintaining it quite as well as I could have, but it's there and it
appears to be helpful...I hope.
So, well, in summary: I just *did* two of them, and one of them I offered
to fill a perceived need. Actually, two of them...
Leanne
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