How about updating information in old FAQs which appear not to be
actively maintained? I can see multiple problems with this, but I
think it will become increasingly common that FAQs are being posted
with (a) outdated information and (b) an invalid address for the
author. Now if somebody would volunteer to fix some problem spots but
is unwilling to "take over" the FAQ, wouldn't it be nice if there was
a procedure for that?
Since the headers are not technically really part of the FAQ itself,
how would you feel about a license to e.g. add a comment to the
headers when the original author's address is found to be invalid?
That would at least allow some sort of first-aid measures to be taken.
Another idea would be to allow "secondary" authors' comments to be
appended at the beginning or the end of the main FAQ (perhaps under
their own headers) -- I can think of other reasons why this would be
nice, too.
/* era */
(Case in point: The "Pointer to Archive Servers FAQ" does not contain
any valid pointers [even the alternative location, on Netcom, is
invalid]. You would at least like to get a chance to contact this guy
to get these silly pointers changed, or ask him to stop posting
outdated information which will only confuse the newbies who are his
primary audience, but of course, his e-mail address is on the same
nonexistent host that the pointer points to. Oh well, whatever. ;-)
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