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> From: Warren Harris <wharris@voiceone.com>
> Newsgroups: rec.music.makers.guitar
> Subject: HD Recording FAQ
> Date: Sat, 30 Nov 1996 10:15:28 -0800
> Organization: Harris Creative Group
> NNTP-Posting-Host: isdn27-190.isdn.dnai.com
>
> Worn out by the sheer volume of "opinions" on hardware, software,
> outboard equipment and techniques?
>
> Well, so was I - and the result is - the Video FAQ.
> "PC-Based Digital Recording". 3 hours (two VHS tapes)
>
> Full test results and reviews on nine of the most popular
> soundcards and eight of the top software editing / multitracking
> packages. Drop me a line and I'll forward the complete "Marketing
> Hype" - or check out the description and press release:
>
> http://www.voiceone.com/html/pressr.htm
> --
> HARRIS CREATIVE GROUP - http://www.voiceone.com
> ===============================================
> PC-Based Digital Recording - the Video FAQ! 3hrs VHS
> ===============================================
> VOICE-OVER work / samples / distribution Via our Website!
> ===============================================
> DIGITAL AUDIO WORKSTATIONS - and components!
> Digital Audio Labs, Turtle Beach, Sek'd, Sound Forge...
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I find your labeling of this clearly commercial advertisement as
a "FAQ" to be deceitful and disruptive. FAQs are informative documents which
are maintained by a large group of people -- and as far as I am aware,
on a completely volunteer basis -- for the mutual benefit of the
Usenet/Internet community. They are a constantly-updated reference
whose presence is so established that some implementations of Usenet
software take advantage of their existence by presenting them to
users when they first enter a newsgroup. (And many, many users have
arranged for their newsreaders with article scoring or ranking features
to place any article labeled "FAQ" or "Frequently Asked Questions"
at the head of their read queue.)
To subvert this system by disguising a commercial advertisement (which
doesn't answer *anything*) as a FAQ is reprehensible and destructive.
If you wish to advertise a product for sale, then please be a good
netizen about it: label it clearly on the "Subject:" line as such,
post it to the appropriate newsgroups, and so on. But please do not
use it to destroy what hundreds of people have worked to provide for
nearly a decade.
I have CC'd this to the faq-maintainers list because others may
have differing (or similar) opinions that they wish to share.
Rich Kulawiec
rsk@itw.com
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