Re: Faq maintainers and commericialism

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Thamer Al-Herbish (shadows@whitefang.com)
Sun, 4 Apr 1999 12:20:15 -0700 (PDT)


On 4 Apr 1999, Bill Wohler wrote:

> Thamer Al-Herbish <shadows@whitefang.com> writes:
> > That's very nice. But I think you're exagerrating a bit. To think
> > that writing a book improved your FAQ is just strange.
>
> Oh? Steve went from working on the FAQ a few hours a month (or
> less) to 8 hours every day. How can that *not* improve the FAQ?

Wonderful. Let's all get book contracts and then improve our FAQs.
Without book contracts we should not work on our FAQs. In fact, if
amazon.com does ask us for a link we won't recommend books. Pretty
soon we'll be paying *.answers archivers for their service because
we're charging for ours. Then let's impose per-post fees, and ...

Do you see where I'm getting at here? Why not "I spent the last few
weekend updating the FAQ. Hope you all like it better now."

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