Re: FAQ education

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Pamela Greene (pgreene@optics.rochester.edu)
Thu, 8 Feb 1996 11:08:49 -0500 (EST)

Dave Schweisguth wrote:
> I use a script to mail a (polite but firm) form letter, so it takes
> very little effort per FAQ post [...]. It might be somewhat more
> helpful to novices if I posted (presumably more than one novice
> would read the reply) but it would be infinitely more annoying to
> regulars.

It's often helpful, particularly in a newsgroup which attracts a lot
of new readers, to post a "pointer to the FAQ" more often than the
full FAQ is posted, perhaps once a week or more. Since this isn't a
reply to a particular question, it can have the same Subject every
time, so regular readers can easily killfile it. (The pointer also
need not be cross-posted to *.answers, since most sites leave articles
there long enough that the full FAQ ought to always be available.)

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- Pam Greene, speaking in no pseudo-official capacity at all
Ferret Central <http://www.optics.rochester.edu:8080/users/pgreene/>

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