Re: faq-maintainers book

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Taki Kogoma (quirk@unm.edu)
Thu, 18 May 1995 13:14:02 -0600 (MDT)


> Date: Thu, 18 May 1995 12:27:56 -0500 (CDT)
> From: D. Joseph Creighton <djc@cc.UManitoba.CA>
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> I've kept out of this mostly because my FAQs are perhaps not as "publishable"
> as some of the others out there. However, I've an idea which may be helpful:
>
> NETguide is a magazine in the U.S. which has come out with books on various
> topics: NETmoney, NETgames, NETtrek, etc. The material published is not
> the FAQs or lists themselves (although there are some excerpts for the sake
> of interest), but instead they give pointers to the original host site as
> well as other archive sites (AOL, Genie, Compu$erve, gopher, ftp, etc).

The material has also shown to have the depth of an onion skin.
Research is apperantly one of the things that the editors thereof
consider to be 'optional'.

> It may be in our interests to contact these people and ask if they want to
> put out a book on FAQs to create this comprehensive listing of locations for
> any FAQ officially put out into the ether (their web and mail addresses are
> in each book, but I don't have them here at work to pass on).

I would not support farming this project out to Michael Wolff and co.
(The publishers of the Net<Foo> series -- which, BTW, is not connected
to NetGuide according to reports on news.admin.* last year). Keep in
mind that this is the crew who spammed Usenet with ads for _NetChat_.

If a book of FAQs is to be published[1], I agree that a net-saavy bunch
like ORA would be the way to go.

[1] Of course, I expect that there would be many maintainers who would
not want their works included in such a volume due to the fluid nature
of their subjects (constantly-changing information) and would prefer
to have the most up-to-date version be the most visible one.

-- 
Capt. Gym Z. Quirk     (Known to some as Taki Kogoma)     quirk@unm.edu
  I'll get a life when someone demonstrates it would be superior to
                           what I have now.


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