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Re: About that FAQ ...
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lugnet.general
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Mon, 28 Dec 1998 20:09:34 GMT
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Nephilim <jthompson@teubner.com> writes:
> [...]
> There's a possible answer, though. Create a new LUGNet
> LEGO FAQ, using no material from Tom's r.t.l FAQ. Another
> possible answer is just to dive in and modify the r.t.l FAQ,
> send the revisions to Tom Pfeifer, and see what happens.
> That feels too much like a coup attempt, though.
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> I'd still love to donate my time to such a project, and I
> see now that Jim is also interested. Perhaps collaboration
> is in order? I'll cc this exchange to Tom and see if his
> opinion on the matter has shifted in the intervening
> months.
Say, Jeff, what do you think about a special multi-FAQ where questions (and
their answers) could appear in multiple newsgroups? That is, what if you
were to restructure the "main" FAQ something like this?--
Main FAQ file =
Header
List of questions/answer pairs
Trailer
Question/Answer pair =
List of newgroups this Q/A pair appears in
Question
Answer
That is, a new main FAQ file could have a zillion Q/A pairs, each of which
could appear (or not appear) in any newsgroup. So each newsgroup could have
a slightly different FAQ specially tailored to it, but questions appearing
in two newsgroups would have a single maintenance location.
The list of newsgroups could be as simple as a comma-separated list with
wildcard characters, and the processing script which would break the main
FAQ up into little FAQs and post them could be designed, written, run, and
maintained by anyone with a shell account and an NNTP client capable of
posting from the command line.
The script would need to automatically number the questions and build an
index at the top. But that's pretty easy... :) As far as the format of
the raw main FAQ, it could be regular ASCII with special markup characters
in column 1 or it could be XML or just about anything that someone was
willing to process by a script.
--Todd
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| (...) I think Todd has a neat idea technically. However my concern with multiple FAQs is the divisiveness factor betweeen RTL and LUGNET. Multiple FAQs within LUGNET would be very cool. Tom does not "own" the right to be the keeper of the FAQ. Nor (...) (26 years ago, 28-Dec-98, to lugnet.general)
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| (...) This is an excellent approach to a LUGNET Faq. Which, I have grown convinced, is the bigger need. An r.t.l alt-faq can easily grow out of such a thing as well, but a LUGNET faq fairly screams from the sort of cooperation I think would make a (...) (26 years ago, 28-Dec-98, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: About that FAQ ...
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| (...) I'd expressed interest in updating and revising the FAQ back in August and contacted Tom. Todd's post on r.t.l referenced that. Tom's response was that he would be happy to have submissions to the FAQ be emailed to him; he wasn't interested in (...) (26 years ago, 28-Dec-98, to lugnet.general)
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