>The only other idea I've come up with is rotational posting.
>Split the FAQ into its individual sections, which for mine
>are clearly defined because I use minimal digest format.
>Post a couple of these daily -- "a couple" having been
>precisely calculated to yield a rotation of about a month.
>I would do a little bit of logical grouping rather than
>totally random breaks. Unless I could find software to
>manage this, I'd need to look at the existing packages for
>managing multiple output formats and see which I could most
>easily extend for this function.
>
>This would be in addition to the normal postings and would
>go only to the relevant newsgroup, not to news.answers.
[...]
>keep up with the too infrequent changes.) This leads me to
>wonder whether posting the individual topics -- with their
>individual topical Subject: lines rather than the generic
>"here comes the FAQ again" -- would lead more people to
>read sections that interest them.
I do something similar to this in the rec.arts.tv.soaps.* newsgroups -
split the FAQ into individual sections, and post a different one every
2-3 days - some are posted once a month, and others once every 2
months. This is in addition to the once-monthly "full FAQ." I set up
a cron job & csh files to do it, which was a real pain, but now it's
pretty automatic (and has been so for the past 2 years at least). I
find it works fairly well, but there's always *someone* who manages to
miss seeing them! Oh, and every once in a while I get flak email
accusing me of being a net.cop, but I just ignore those.
Margaret D. Gibbs
gibbsm@ll.mit.edu
keeper of rec.arts.tv.soaps.* faqs, plus a couple of misc.kids.info faqs.
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