What do you mean by "a lot more than is reasonable" ? The key to writing
a useful FAQ is to focus on the content. I really don't see size being the
problem that it was 3 years ago. If you are trying to answer questions and
educate your readership, do so. Don't get in a position of deciding not to
add something useful simply because it puts you a few K over some archaic
limit.
If the 45K of clues is well organized it is not problem at all. I would
rather see a single, well organized FAQ than 5 or 6 FAQs that really say the
same thing but make it harder for me as a reader to retrieve and read.
Remember your readership. What is your intended audience ? Splitting your FAQ
into multiple FAQs simply for some arbitrary size limit makes little sense.
Splitting it into multiple FAQs makes sense along major topic areas when they
are really separate topic areas. Such as...
Introduction and History of news.groups,
A Primer to Creating Usenet Newsgroups
# 3. Do one short "Welcome" message that is a digest, then a mega-FAQ that
# explains everything very clearly
Please format your FAQ in one of the digest formats. I recommend at a minimum
you use the format specified in "FAQs: A Suggested Minimal Digest Format".
If you are going to be repeating yourself in the 'short "Welcome" message'
with what is in the 'mega-FAQ', just go with a the 'mega-FAQ'. There is
little value in repeating things in a different format.
Also, take advantage of other FAQs that describe the process by referencing
them where appropriate. FWIW.
-- Kent Landfield Phone: 1-817-545-2502 The Landfield Group FAX: 1-817-545-7650 Email: kent@landfield.com http://www.landfield.com/ Please send comp.sources.misc related mail to kent@uunet.uu.net.
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