> Automated, yes. Easy, okay, once it's set up. Nice? Not always,
> unfortunately. Recently more and more Usenet sites have been imposing
> strict limits on file length, newsgroup count, or other criteria which
> are preventing legitimate FAQs from being distributed properly. If a
The only reason I find to post a FAQ to the actual newsgroup is so
that the newbie will pick it up while reading the newsgroup. As for
its availability, a webpage is doing that job just fine. It would be
nice if we could update the FAQs without neccesarily posting it
completely and just post pointers. After all, who doesn't have web
access these days? (*duck*)
No really. Maybe it's time for a little change: a mechanism whereby
a FAQ can be updated by simply mailing it to rtfm, and the allowance
of FAQ maintainers to post pointers if they have difficulty getting
their FAQs through a news server's spam filter.
-- Thamer Al-Herbish PGP public key: shadows@whitefang.com http://www.whitefang.com/pgpkey.txt [ Maintainer of the Raw IP Networking FAQ http://www.whitefang.com/rin/ ]
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