> On Wed, 11 Feb 1998 09:55:01 -0600 (CST), "Danny R. Faught"
> <faught@rsn.hp.com> wrote:
> > David Alex Lamb wrote:
> >> I checked out Kent's (faq.org's) list of postings-by-newsgroup for
> >> news.announce.newusers at
> >> http://www.faqs.org/faqs/by-newsgroup/news/news.announce.newusers.html
> > I agree with the sentiment that new users need to know which one of
> > the many FAQs in that newsgroup to start with. Rather than a new FAQ
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> This was basically what I was getting at in an earlier suggestion of
> mine. Rather than saturate news.announce.newusers with more FAQs, put
> a good, short, succinct, meaningful FAQ on or very near the cover page
> for faqs.org and point there from everywhere else. There could be two
If I may mention an additional item here... 'We', that is.. some of the
maintainers of faqs for the nl (Dutch) hierarchy, have long had the idea
to bundle the faqs (which are now sort of scattered around all sorts of
sites) on a single spot (which could be mirrored perhaps, but I'm not sure
if the traffic would warrant that). One of the things we've been tossing
around next to things like usenet.nl, netherlands.org, nl.net is
something like nl.faqs.org or www.faqs.org/nl (provided Kent would agree
with something like that of course). Since this idea is still in a
sort of 'brainstorm' state we haven't really started to wonder which path
to choose. One of the main reasons for this idea is the myriad of points
people now point to as 'the' site for starting readers of nl.*.
We'd like to be able to concentrate on one spot so we have one (hopefully
well maintained and organized) site that people can refer new users to.
It would be interesting to know if regional hierarchies could be part of a
greater scheme to help people find the information they want. Perhaps this
is food for a separate thread though..