>The process does not allow having someone take over a topic area and update an
>existing FAQ without the permission of the maintainer abandoning it. I don't
>wish to get into a copyright discussion here. It also does not allow someone
>to replace the existing FAQ posted with the name of the abandoned one with a
>brand new one free of any copyright problems. Since the moderators don't wish
>to make anyone mad they have chosen to force new names for faqs while the
>abandoned one continues to exist and confuse the readership as to why it is
>there.
Interesting. I'm the current maintainer of the humanities.classics FAQ, having
taken it over after the previous maintainer abandoned it for more than a year;
it had, in fact, been transfered from sci.classics when the newer group was
created. I suppose that this was a special case, since I was a contributor to
the FAQ in the sci.classics days, but it never occurred to me to write from
scratch, nor do I expect that anyone from the old days will come along to com-
plain about the job that's been done.
There is, as it happens, a project afoot to re-do the humanities.classics FAQ
in a multi-part format, so that things like literature can be updated while the
teaching of Greek and Latin remain the same; I'll hand off the other parts and
keep the linguistic ones for myself. But none of this would have been possible
if the news.answers moderators hadn't allowed me to start posting the old FAQ
once more.
Rich Alderson
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