I agree -- it sounds like a great idea. I don't see any direct need
for an email (though I also have no objection to it).
One option would be to create a web page which is a table listing the
FAQs, number of accesses since logging began, number of accesses year
to date, number of accesses this month, and just let people know
the URL through some common means (such as the news.answers
intro).
> And then there's the possiblity of privacy concerns.
Perhaps there should be some way for FAQ maintainers to ask that
their counts not be kept or displayed, but I don't see any reason for
privacy to be a major consideration when we're dealing with documents
that have been explicitly posted to news.answers and/or submitted
directly to http://www.faqs.org/faqs -- I don't see why anyone would
ask to have their FAQ so widely and publicly available, and want to
hide how often it's referenced.
Balanone
maintainer: Balanone's Temple of Set FAQ
URL: http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Delphi/4979/baltsfaq.html
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