Re: Marketing faqs.org (and search engines)

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Russell Schulz (faqmaint@locutus.ofb.org)
Wed, 4 Feb 1998 16:35:35 +0000


> I've often thought that it would be REAL nice if there was a search
> option at the major search engines for FAQs.

[smacks forehead] I agree - this is an EXCELLENT idea!
(but then, it's not my bandwidth I'm volunteering.)

> I'd say it is not surprising that relatively few know about
> faqs.org -- it hasn't been marketed that well among the places most
> people use to search the net.

I didn't know about it for a long time, even though I was subscribed
to faq-maintainers-announce (I'd thought that would be the best place
to start publicizing it).

I now have links to rtfm and faqs.org in all my pointer-to-FAQ posts.

The FAQ for comp.bbs.waffle can be found on the Internet:
<ftp://rtfm.mit.edu/pub/usenet/comp.bbs.waffle/faq>
<http://www.faqs.org/faqs/waffle-faq/>

(I still wish faqs.org had a pure by-newsgroup path, like rtfm does,
but perhaps I just haven't noticed it; I will pay more attention to
the URLs next time I'm trawling.)

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Russell_Schulz@locutus.ofB.ORG  Shad 86c