FAQ Buttons on Newsreaders (was FAQ sites on the web?)

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Karl M. Bunday (bunda002@gold.tc.umn.edu)
Wed, 24 Jul 1996 00:32:53 -0500

Dragomir R. Radev wrote:
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> Shouldn't Netscape and other web browsers that supply usenet access have a
> default button for the FAQ for each newsgroup?

Prodigy's newsreader has had that from the very beginning. That is a
very newby-friendly feature, but it only works if a particular newsgroup
has an FAQ with a title or header that unerringly matches it to the
newsgroup. NONE of the newsgroups I've frequented most often in the past
two years have one. I'm here (in this FAQ-maintainers mailing list) to
find out how to post one (or several) in my favorite newsgroup, but
meanwhile I've simply built my own Web site, which I can mention in my
every .SIG file. That's easier, and probably the wave of the future.
Insisting that the technology move to serve the FAQ maintainer is less
realistic than the FAQ maintainer adapting to fit the prevailing
technology.

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Karl M. Bunday                bunda002@gold.tc.umn.edu
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