If Usenet fades away, much of the motivation to maintain my FAQ goes
away. I need some definition of the community I'm serving - and just
hanging out a web page on the search engines doesn't give me this.
> The trick is that
> someone looking for the information may have difficulty finding it even
> with a web search tool. 2006010 documents match the query "FAQ" in the alta
> vista Canadian < http://www.altavista.ca/ > index, I did not try the world
> index.
Yes, the search engines need to do a much better job of indexing Usenet
FAQ. Without Usenet, perhaps the search engines would have to follow their
own process of judging which are worthwhile. Not that rtfm judges based on
content, but I think the approval process itself weeds out a lot of people
who aren't willing to follow through (for good reason). A similar process
doesn't seem to exist on the search engines.
-Danny
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