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

Al Gilman (asgilman@access.digex.net)
Wed, 24 Jul 1996 08:15:51 -0400 (EDT)

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From: Fred Burke <fburke@ccnet.com>

> 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.

Extracting entries in the LoPP that post to the current newsgroup would
seem to be a method that would catch more FAQs than title matching.

One way to help this idea catch on would be for somebody to cut a Gnus
patch that does this and start circulating it.

Al Gilman

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