Re: Stop posting?

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Edward Reid (faqmail@paleo.greensboro.fl.us)
Tue, 26 Nov 96 19:22:09 -0500

It's wierd how much our audiences vary. The seven parts of the diabetes
FAQ total slightly more than the wine FAQ, yet I've never received a
single suggestion that I should not post it. misc.health.diabetes has a
lot of long-term participants, thus presumably a lot of long-term
readers, so the newsgroup has no shortage of people who encounter the
FAQ repeatedly. Perhaps it's a smaller newsgroup, though.

One purpose of a Usenet FAQ is to affect the atmosphere of the
newsgroup. Posting the FAQ, the entire text, makes it more likely that
a new reader will encounter (or, dare we hope, search for and find) the
FAQ and read it. For this reason, I say keep posting.

One point of an offline news reader is that you don't have to sit there
while it downloads the news. Start it, and go do something else. That's
especially the beauty of a UUCP feed. If these people don't like the
news reader they use, they should look for a different one, or a
different service. It's not as though the choices are severely limited.

Edward Reid <edward@paleo.greensboro.fl.us>

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