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

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Lloyd Wood (eep1lw@ee.surrey.ac.uk)
Wed, 7 Feb 1996 17:08:45 +0000 (GMT)


On Wed, 7 Feb 1996, Henriette Kress wrote:

> At 10:06 06.02.96 -0800, tyaginator wrote:
> >
> >|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.

Insert 'to be involved in any publishing or broadcast medium' here.
Weather announcers have egos too.

As for the dweebs who take any FAQ as gospel truth, let's hope to God
that they don't start believing what they read in the National Enquirer.

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

I'd phrase that as 'What relevance does this have to the faq-maintainers
mailing list, if any?'

L.

Lloyd Wood, CSER Networks Group, University of Surrey, +44 1483 300800 x3435
<URL:http://www.ee.surrey.ac.uk/Personal/L.Wood/>netboy<L.Wood@surrey.ac.uk>



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