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In lugnet.admin.general, Cary Clark writes:
> I've been thinking about this as well. And I will volunteer my time toward
> creating either the database or the traditional faq. As it is, I often
> search the newsgroups for past answers and it is often fruitless, even when
> the information I seek is there somewhere. So, I add to Tim's chorus: is
> someone or some group already doing this?
Jeremy Sproat and a couple others were working on it a while back and made
quite a bit of progress -- check the .faq group archives for old discussions
-- but I think due to time considerations it has stagnated.
One thing I'd like to see in a revival is an implementation via FTX[1],
similar to what Shiri Dori did for her Acronym FAQ:
http://www.lugnet.com/~88/acronym_faq/
and similar to what the FTX FAQ itself does:
http://www.lugnet.com/publish/ftx/faq/
There's no searching in FTX documents (yet), but it does provide for editing
off-line and uploading a completed document, quick editing/adjustments online
right from a web browser, revision histories[2], and page transclusion[3] for
building multi-FAQs out of smaller FAQs. FTX pages are also readable as
plaintext[4], which makes them fairly suitable for posting and emailing.
--Todd
[1] http://www.lugnet.com/publish/ftx/guide/
[2] http://www.lugnet.com/publish/ftx/guide/revisions
http://www.lugnet.com/publish/ftx/faq/$
[3] http://www.lugnet.com/publish/ftx/guide/transclusion
[4] http://www.lugnet.com/publish/ftx/faq/index.ftx
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| I've spent a few moments paying around with the LUGNET FAQ in FTX. Starting with (URL) (the batch that Jeremy Sproat created some time ago) I've put a whopping total of three of them here: (URL) tried to preserve the original FAQ entries content, (...) (24 years ago, 10-Oct-00, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.faq)
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| I've been thinking about this as well. And I will volunteer my time toward creating either the database or the traditional faq. As it is, I often search the newsgroups for past answers and it is often fruitless, even when the information I seek is (...) (24 years ago, 4-Oct-00, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.faq)
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