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

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> Dragomir R. Radev wrote:
> >
> > 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.

What's the "unerring" format to follow? Maybe if it was made standard for
approved news.answers postings?

Fred Burke

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