----- Original Message -----
From: "Stan Schwarz" <stan@cosmo.pasadena.ca.us>
To: "Russ Allbery" <rra@stanford.edu>
Cc: <faq-maintainers@rkive.landfield.com>
Sent: Sunday, May 06, 2001 1:09 AM
Subject: Re: [faq-maintainers] Question about replacing a maintainer
> > robin <robin_v@bigpond.com> writes:
> >
> > >> I have a question about replacing a FAQ maintainer. One of the
groups
> >
> > Who wrote the FAQ? If it was written collectively by the members of the
> > group, that's one thing, but if the previous maintainer wrote most of it
> > herself, it's really her intellectual property, and posting it without
her
> > consent isn't exactly kosher. (At least to me.)
>
> Well, in this case, she started with an existing FAQ, and rewrote it from
> the ground up. So if we can't use her FAQ, and we write a new one, how
> do we declare ours to be the 'official' FAQ and have hers declared dead?
>
> There is a group that is actively writing a new FAQ, so if we can have
> that one declared to be the official FAQ, that would be all right.
rec.arts.anime.misc is encountering a similar problem. The previous
maintainer was handling the FAQs for the entire r.a.a. heirarchy until he
suddenly stopped in September 1998. At the beginning of the year a few
people assumed the maintaining, updating and in one case an entirely new
rewrite of the FAQs. We tried contacting the previous maintainer but he
would not reply at any of his email addresses (including his moderator
contact addy). Moving on, we started submissions to *.answers but the first
test was put on hold waiting for the prior maintainer's consent but they
can't seem to get a reply either. In short, we have a number of FAQs stuck
in limbo at *.answers moderation.
-Rob M.
>
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