Re: 'faq-maintainersbook'

Taki Kogoma (quirk@unm.edu)
Thu, 18 May 1995 13:20:27 -0600 (MDT)

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> Date: Thu, 18 May 1995 10:26:30 -0700 (PDT)
> From: Nancy McGough <nancym@ii.com>
>
> On 18 May 1995, Perry Rovers wrote:
> > Sofar, the following people have expressed interest in the project
> > Tom Galloway proposed, i.e. the book on the net by the FAQ
> > Maintainers
>
> What exactly are people envisioning for this book? My thoughts
> are that what we do *NOT* want is a compilation of FAQs because
> FAQs are live documents that should be accessed via the Net. I
> was imagining a book about using News with chapters like this:
>
> * Finding FAQs (why you should never get an FAQ via a book or
> CD ROM or anything static)
> * Writing FAQs
> * Copyrights and Disclaimers
> * Publishing on the Net
> * MIME and news articles
> * Features you want (and don't want) in a news reader
> * Comparison of news readers (Unix, Mac, Windows, etc.)
> * The Web and News
> * The Web and BBSes (that aren't News)
> * Mailing Lists that are Linked to Newsgroups
> * Archives of newsgroups
> * Searching News
> * What exactly is Usenet (including "Is Clarinet part of Usenet"?)
> * Finding Newsgroups
> * Creating Newsgroups
> * etc., etc,...
>
> What are other people thinking?

Now *THIS* is something I could heartily support. Most net.books I've
seen have, perhaps, a chapter on Usenet (the accuracy thereof is about
as variable as the clue quotient of your typical rec.* newsgroup. ;-).

-- 
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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