Re: Possible solution to FAQ publishing problem

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C. Titus Brown (brown@krl.caltech.edu)
Tue, 16 May 1995 10:07:13 -0800 (PDT)

-> One idea occurs to me; what if FAQ maintainers got together and put
-> together our own "Guide to Usenet Newsgroups" with appropriate bits
-> from the FAQs and sold it as a book to a publisher? Royalties to go
-> to upgrading rtfm.mit.edu perhaps?

I'm not sure this is something that most FAQ maintainers would be interested
in (although the royalties idea IS a good one!); after all, some of us
(my teensy FAQ withstanding :) already ARE publishing FAQs, just not in
paper form. Putting them in a book would reduce their utility, reduce their
mutability, and overall just remove the whole point of them.

On the other hand, a Guide to the Internet based around netiquette and finding
FAQs could be nice, esp. if a group of people got together to do it. I
know that there are a few good books out there (that I didn't bother to buy
'cause I already know where to find where things are), but has anything like
this been done?

Admittedly, this guide could be cobbled together from a dozen or so FAQs
quite quickly...

-> I'll do the quick weasel in advance and say that I'm not sure if I'd
-> have time to be organizer should this happen, but I'm curious as to
-> what others think of this idea.

;) I guess this'll be a recurring theme: what he said ^^.

-- 
Titus Brown, brown@krl.caltech.edu.

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