> When a FAQ appears to be abandon and someone wants to take it over - what
> is the process?
>
> Is the process differerent here (USA) than in the UK.
There are two separate stages involved in "taking over" a FAQ. First
is the issue of use or modification of the FAQ itself, independent of
any *.answers involvement. Anyone is always free to write a FAQ on
any subject they want, but a FAQ is implicitly copyrighted by its
author, so using portions of it, even updated or modified, in a new
FAQ is likely to violate applicable copyright law. That's the part
that might vary depending on where the old and new authors live, since
copyright law varies from one country to another. The *.answers
moderators stay out of it.
Separate from this is the question of *.answers approval. Again,
anyone can have a FAQ approved on any subject they want. In practice,
the moderators' policy has been that if a FAQ is old enough and its
maintainer-of-record either agrees or can't be reached, we'll let a
new FAQ replace it -- that is, we'll remove the "dead" FAQ from the
archive and let the new one use its Archive-name if the maintainer
wants. However, uk.answers isn't handled by the news.answers
moderators (though if it's also posted to news.answers we have to
approve it too), so this part might be different for a UK-specific FAQ
as well.
The actual process for this second stage is simpy to email the
moderators and explain what you want to do and why (e.g., "The
comp.foo FAQ in the archive is from 1971 and the maintainer isn't
reachable and hasn't been seen on the Internet since 1983. I have
this new comp.foo FAQ which I created entirely from scratch; can we
replace the old one?").
- Pam
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