> My Red Dwarf FAQ is
> mentioned in the "Genre: Other Sci-Fi" chapter, which is fine with me --
> but the blurb cites several of the questions in the FAQ, one of which
> had to do with an ongoing criminal case that has since been concluded.
> Committing that information to paper was foolish; it was out of date
> before it ever reached bookstores.
It's for reasons like this -- Wolff's band of merrie men,
the Walnut Creek crowd, and the like -- that even if I pull
the Broken Newsreader FAQ into a format which will warrant
regular posting, I am growing less and less likely to submit
it to *.answers. A document of this nature will invariably
contain errors about software that other people have
written, and while I am happy to correct any mistaken data
that I receive, I cannot do anything about it if an
erroneous FAQ has been published on CD-ROM or in a book, and
is disseminating information that may harm software authors.
I can hardly prevent anyone from putting the document on a
CD-ROM anyway, but since we've seen that *.answers are more
likely to be archived in this manner than many other
newsgroups, I don't think it's fair to the people cited in
the FAQ. To be sure, WC and their ilk are to be
congratulated for helping create an atmosphere in which FAQ
authors are unwilling to submit their FAQs to the designated
newsgroup.
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