Nick's already answered this, but the points are important enough
to be worth repeating.
Rubywand wrote:
> Nick Boalch <n.g.boalch@durham.ac.uk> writes ...
>> However, as far as your FAQs are concerned, the *.answers moderators don't
>> care which of you is right. We don't get involved in internal newsgroup
>> politics and if both of you submit your FAQs to *.answers both will be
>> approved (providing they comply with the guidelines on form).
>
> This seems to sluff off an important function of *.answers moderators.
> If more than one faqs per newsgroup is accepted for archiving and
> distribution via news.answers, then the value of news.answers as a filter
> is diminished.
Filtering has never been a function of news.answers. The primary
function of news.answers is to increase the availability of
approved FAQ lists to interested readers, where "approved" merely
means "complies with the (minimal) header formatting guidelines."
Any broader function -- in particular, any review of content for
"officialness" or even appropriateness -- is simply unsustainable.
> Another consideration is maintaining interest in faqs keeping, at least
> vis-a-vis news.answers. If a faqs keeper is not supported by *.answers
Supporting FAQ maintainers has never been a function of
news.answers, either. Getting an FAQ list approved for
news.answers requires more work, not less.
> moderators as maintainer of _the_ faqs for a newsgroup, then important
> motivations for participating in news.answers are much reduced.
As we were discussing here just a little while ago, the notion of
"*the* FAQ list for a newsgroup" is a dangerous fiction.
> Nancy seems to be an interested, involved participant of alt.spooky.
> If she submits a proper faqs, why not recognize her as the faqs keeper?
If she submits a proper list, she will be recognized as a keeper,
as Nick indicated above.
Steve Summit
scs@eskimo.com
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