Re: disclaimer for *.answers

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S L Painting (slp@zedtoo.demon.co.uk)
Fri, 25 Jun 1999 19:48:14 +0100 (BST)

On Fri 25 Jun, David Alex Lamb wrote:
> As part of handling a controversy over certain FAQs, I negotiated with the FAQ
> maintainer to add the following disclaimer - either
> X-Disclaimer: Approval for *.answers is based on form, not content.
> in the standard header, or
> Disclaimer: Approval for *.answers is based on form, not content.
> in the auxiliary header (maintainer's choice).

One minor point: If (as I do) you get questions of the "which way up
should I hold a mouse?" variety, you might not want the disclaimer in
the auxiliary header.

People unfamiliar with the *.answers hierarchy (e.g. those seeing the
FAQ in the home newsgroup) might end up with the mistaken impression
that "answers" to questions about the FAQ itself might somehow need
"approval", and that they need to be in some (unspecified) "form".

Or maybe I'm just being unnecessarily paranoid.

I'll gladly add the "X-Disclaimer" to the standard header, but my vote
would be for the "Disclaimer" in the auxiliary header to be optional.

-- 
S L Painting <slp@zedtoo.demon.co.uk>

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