>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*)
Millions of users around the world. I deal with 3000+ at a time on the
ACCMAIL list.
Too many people think that everybody has web access but I know for a
fact that most of the 3rd world doesn't.
Things are just fine at the FAQ archives as is. E-mail only access is
how most of my users get the FAQs including mine. The hoops we have to
jump through to retrieve web pages by E-mail methods are sometimes
insurmountable.
There is nothing easier than:
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-- Gerry Boyd -- gboyd@netcom.com
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