> I maintain the Wine FAQ (the beverage, not computer language). It is
I'll have to check that out! (BTW, I don't know about a Wine computer
language, but there is the Windows Emulator for unix called Wine.)
> With the WWW there certainly is *less* of a need to keep posting, but are
> there still people with just usenet access (I'm ignoring the possibility
> of FTP, etc) who would consider it better to keep posting than to not? Or
There are people like me who do their email and news through UUCP (an
older technology that carried email and usenet before the Internet grew
into existence) and can not use web or ftp. We can use ftpmail servers
though to ftp files through email. I understand the same technology
exists for retrieving web documents.
With my faq, which is about unix network programming, I make sample
source code available. Instead of dealing with the confusion over
distributing binary files as part of a faq, I make them available both on
the web and on an ftp server. I include instructions for DEC's ftpmail
server in an appendix. That way anyone who has email can get the files.
Maybe you could make a "Reader's Digest" condensed edition of really
frequently asked questions for usenet posting and provide an archive of
less frequently asked questions by web or ftp, with instructions similar
to mine on how to retrieve them. I assume a technical readership with my
faq, so the instructions are sparse. You may want to expand on them a
little if you decided to go that route.
If anyone want's to see my ftpmail instructions, check out one of:
http://www.auroraonline.com/sock-faq
http://kipper.york.ac.uk/~vic/sock-faq
ftp://rtfm.mit.edu/pub/usenet/news.answers/unix-faq/socket
> should I take the few complaints (3 in 2 years, but can guess it may get
> to be more often) to heart?
If bandwidth keeps getting wider, maybe this number will stay low and you
can forget about the problem.
Take care,
Vic.
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