Re: One FAQ, multiple newsgroups

Barry Campbell (btc@cris.com)
Wed, 3 Jul 96 10:37:35 -0400

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>Jeff Knapp wrote:
>
>So my question is this: is anoyone else in the same boat where there are
>two groups very similar in subject matter (the r.a.m.e. group would
>probably need a special part all of their own to handle the softcore stuff
>that a.s.m. doesn't deal with, but that's it) and a single FAQ is
>maintained?

I'm the maintainer for the Bipolar Disorder FAQ, which straddles
two newsgroups: alt.support.depression.manic and
soc.support.depression.manic. (ASDM was the precusor to SSDM...
but it didn't die off gracefully when the Big Eight version
was newgrouped.)

We haven't received word of our approval yet from the *.answers
Gods, but I intend to list the FAQ on the rtfm server under
both newsgroup names.

>... plus I'm in the process of learning SGML in the hopes it will help me
>maintain many versions of the FAQ for many platforms... here's hoping. ;-)

Learning SGML is good for many reasons, but this may not be one of
them. I'll contact you offlist with the method I use, working from
a Macintosh, to create HTML, Unix plaintext, and DOS plaintext
versions of the FAQ from the same source file.

-- barry

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