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Re: Temporary outage of FAQ work
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lugnet.faq
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Tue, 13 Jul 1999 18:55:42 GMT
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In lugnet.faq, Jeremy H. Sproat writes:
> Robert Munafo wrote:
> > That would be great. So far, everything I've seen in this discussion
> > group is people talking about how to create a complex system [...] and
> > no actual FAQs.
Okay, I have to take some of this back now. I have actually found some FAQs in
this newsgroup that were posted before I jumped in and started stirring things
up -- the LDraw FAQs. I had ignored them because I had already read the LDraw
FAQ on http://www.ldraw.org and I was mainly looking for FAQs about LUGNET.
(and MindStorms) And now that you've auto-posted everything I no longer have
anything to whine about (-:
> This is actually important. :-, The formatting, while human-readable, will
> allow a highly-automated FAQ browsing / searching system that will be
> closely tied into the overall structure of LUGNET. It should be
> significantly different from ye olde traditional FAQ once the system is in
> place; the questions will be segregated partly by user choice and partly by
> category, for example. But there will also be an option to read the entire
> thing as a single document as well.
I appreciate all this now. But I was really surprised people spent so much
effort on design and planning at the expense of actually producing content.
It's kind of like spending all your time acquiring and sorting LEGO pieces and
no time actually building models. (-: We've all been there, haven't we?)
- Robert
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| (...) :-D We're all Dilberts at heart, methinks. A note about the Mindstorms FAQ -- Kerry Garrison had given me permission on 1999-05-10 to slurp his FAQ, and I have done so. (1) Thus far, I have entered items 1.1-1.6 and 2.1-2.2 (all dated (...) (25 years ago, 13-Jul-99, to lugnet.faq)
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| (...) I'm not sure that I should post the HTML to the newsgroup; the HTML I generate is around 300 KB. And, it would look pretty ugly, reading an HTML document in a news reader. I've run it through Lynx; the resulting text is around 240 KB. And, (...) (25 years ago, 12-Jul-99, to lugnet.faq)
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