Re: down to a dull roar?

Tung-chiang Yang (tcyang@EE.UCLA.EDU)
Tue, 17 Sep 1996 12:46:52 -0700 (PDT)

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Not really. The FAQ for sci.astro.amateur might be of little interests
to those outside of the specific newsgroup, but today if I want to dig
out some information about astronomy, and when I go to that newsgroup
without seeing any FAQs (probably you post your FAQ once a month and
I happen to go there when the old version gets purged), the FAQ archive
should be the next place for me to dig out FAQs. Submission to
"news.answers" serves for this purpose.

Of course, if there are few newbies posting FAQ questions in
sci.astro.amateur, or people there do not mind seeing some frequently
asked questions showing up there again and again, then submission to
"news.answers" is not necessary.

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> > Are the moderators seeing a higher percentage of administrative
> > or other changes to existing FAQ lists, and a lower percentage
> > of brand-new ones? Or are the new ones still busting down the
> > door?
>
> Could be there are many new FAQs, but they are not submitted to
> news.answers. There are several like that which appear in
> sci.astro.amateur; I maintain four myself.
>
> Why? (1) People don't know about news.answers, (2) Haven't had time or
> interest in going through the process, (3) Don't believe their FAQs are
> of interest to an audience outside the specific newsgroup.
>
> -Bill
>
>

-- 
Tung-chiang Yang         tcyang@ee.ucla.edu
Dept. of Electrical Engineering, UCLA, USA
Sep 17, 1996

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