Re: FAQ education

Mama Lani (lani@lava.net)
Fri, 9 Feb 1996 10:12:28 -1000 (HST)

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On Thu, 8 Feb 1996, Pamela Greene wrote:
> 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.

Whenever someone posts a "Where's the FAQ?" question, or a real FAQey
question, I send them my Meta-FAQ with nothing but a table of contents of
the newsgroup's FAQ parts, with instructions on how to get them.
Then in a further attempt to keep the noise low, I post a follow-up to
the query that always starts with "Meta-FAQ sent to poster, was: ..."
on the subject heading. This way, readers know it's been taken care of,
and those who don't want to see my notice can simply killfile it.

This way, I don't have to post the Meta-FAQ itself (the "Welcome FAQ" is
posted every other week, anyway).

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