Re: FAQ-Creation (Was Re: How to create a FAQ here [APTaoism]?)

Henriette Kress (HeK@hetta.pp.fi)
Wed, 07 Feb 1996 17:09:58 -0100

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At 10:06 06.02.96 -0800, tyaginator wrote:
>kaliyuga
>49960206
>
>For Review
>
>|...the first part of creating a decent FAQ is a gradual and dedicated
>|storage of FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS IN THIS NEWSGROUP, since the
>|purpose of a FAQ is the responding to these in a way which inspires
>|additional and new input from newbies who read it.
(snip)
>|...FAQs... obtain from their originators, whether that be from a group
>|or an individual. Unless you first compose a list of questions which
>|are freqently asked here (and this requires that you stick around the
>|newsgroup for a while -- I'd suggest a year or two), then you'll only
>|create a file of propaganda masquerading as a 'FAQ' (as are most of
>|them online).
>
>|It is explosively ego-building to create a FAQ. One becomes 'the source'
>|or 'conduit for authority'. Unfortunately it is also a slam to the
>|minds of those who take the 'FAQ' as gospel truth rather than as one
>|more propaganda file, from which they will of course have to recover.
>
>[quote ends]

_Very_ nicely put. Love that style.

But truthfully, did you _have_ to do this to us?

Henriette
...who wishes to keep the illusion that _her_ FAQ is not merely one more
propaganda file... (actually the Net.Authorities on medicinal herbs like
it too, so it can't be all bad.)(And I've been told I'm a guru by a
friend who heard I made the FAQ --- so I said me? I don't know shit,
I just know where to get the good stuff, and he said, yes, that's what
gurus do...)

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