> I'm writing a magazine article and I'd like to refer to a number of
> FAQs. There are probably half a dozen ways to retrieve a FAQ, but I'm
> not going to print them all. There are even at least two different ways
> to name a FAQ - the Subject line and the archive name.
>
> The way I've set it up now, I refer to the "Introduction to the
> *.answers newsgroups" and use only the archive name of the FAQs. But
> now I'm rethinking that, because the most common way to find FAQs
> is probably to go to news.answers (or is it?), and it's heard to search
> the newsgroup for archive names. And the *.answers FAQ is written as
> much for FAQ maintainers as the newbies who need to learn how to
> find them.
>
> Are there any conventions?
You've got one primary method, but another you might want to
consider is going to DejaNews (http://www.dejanews.com) and doing a
search in the news.answers newsgroup (or the newsgroup that the FAQ
pertains to) and doing a search that way. AltaVista also supports
newsgroup searching, and InReference might already be online to
support the same. If InReference (http://www.reference.com) is
online, I'd be inclined to point people there first, then DejaNews,
but that's just a personal bias of mine.
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