Let's face it: What do you get from maintaining the faq? Personal
satisfaction, you learn more, get some messages from users sying
"nice job". That is, social welfare.
You do that all for free, with your heart on it. Spend countless
hours of your valuable spare time to keep it updated and following
the newsgroup postings with an eagle eye sorting out those tiny gems
that pop up from the mass.
Your girlfriend of wife is getting nervous that you don't
spend time with her. Your frieds are worried that you are too stuck
with it.
This goes on for years.
Then someday a book company notices your vast effort and offers you
a chance to get your experience visible ever more in a book form?
I see noting bad on this. The review process when you have to concentrate
on the book layout and chapter order and presentation will make the existing
document even better after the process.
In the end the published book is something permanent, ad a reference
for emplyee when you seek for a work or research job in the future.
A web publification is not much of a "hard currency" in job market.
jari
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