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> Is it ? Why ? Why does the process seem to foster that idea. Why
> aren't they being handed off to others to maintain ? Why doesn't the
> process allow for removal of abandoned FAQs ?

A FAQ can be abandoned, and it can also be handed to someone else. I
don't think that "the process" discourages either.

I wrote a FAQ about DOS and Windows 3.1. I've abandoned it, and nobody
took it over, presumably because these operating systems are much less
used than they were in the past.

But some people are still using DOS and Windows 3.1, so I figure that
the FAQ should still be made available to them. I don't intend to
declare DOS obsolete whether people agree or not. ;-)

On the other hand, the Esperanto FAQ was originally written by someone
else, and I took it over. If I hadn't, I think the old version should
still be made available, outdated as it would be.

I have no idea whether abandoned FAQs can be removed; I assume they can.
However, I think that, in most cases, even the oldest FAQ can still be
useful to someone, so why remove it?

You've stated that 34 FAQs were last updated in 1993. Perhaps you could
post the list, and then we could discuss whether they should be removed
or not.

> :) By stating what you just did you told the reader to go to the web
> first. :-) You could have said get it from rtfm.mit.edu but you didn't.
> In the perception of the reader is appears you prefer the web over the
> Usenet distribution. That was my point.

To me, "Usenet distribution" means posting and reading the FAQ in a
Usenet group, not getting it from an FTP archive.

I do make it a point of having the Esperanto FAQ, which I consider my
most important FAQ, available in a number of ways: Usenet, WWW, FTP,
E-mail server, etc.

-- 
Yves Bellefeuille <yan@storm.ca>, Ottawa, Canada
Francais / English / Esperanto
Maintainer, Esperanto FAQ: http://www.esperanto.net/veb/faq.html
Euro Currency Mini-FAQ: http://www.faqs.org/faqs/travel/europe/euro/

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