Re: Possible solution to FAQ publishing problem

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Alex Lopez-Ortiz (alopez-o@barrow.uwaterloo.ca)
Tue, 16 May 1995 13:45:34 -0400

>-> 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.

I don't think a "Guide to Usenet Newsgroups", as the original poster
called it, is supposed to contain FAQs quoted on its entirety.

Rather, it could address issues of netiquette, how to find a FAQ, a
brief statement per group about what they are about, pointers to the
FAQs, etc.

Alex

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Alex Lopez-Ortiz                             alopez-o@neumann.UWaterloo.ca
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Department of Computer Science                      University of Waterloo
Waterloo, Ontario N2L 3G1                                           Canada

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