># Sometimes I answer a question by saying "this is covered in the FAQ:
># see section 7". It's a lot more useful to continue by saying "... and
># you can get the FAQ at http://...", rather than "... and wait 2 weeks
># for the FAQ to appear in the group".
>
>:) 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.
Blame it on the clueless newbies.
With my FAQ, all the questions are bookmarked individually (the HTML writer
I've been using until now automatically does this). So in the long run
what is easier for the clueless person.
http://www.bigfoot.com/~p.hilling/atx-faq-2.htm#q8
or
ftp://rtfm.mit.edu/faqs/tv/xena-wp/usenet and it's question #8 (Or do
bookmarked links work on a ftp server?) Which is the Usenet text version.
Even http://www.faqs.org/ only archives the Usenet (and therefore
bookmarkless) version, which I can't automatically point a user to.
In the end it's plain simpler to give the newbie, one link to the answer.
IMO of course <g>
Paul Hilling :- Alt.Tv.Xena FAQ Maintainer
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