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Re: About that FAQ ...
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lugnet.general
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Mon, 28 Dec 1998 19:40:25 GMT
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Todd Lehman wrote:
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> Nephilim <jthompson@teubner.com> writes:
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> > [...]
> > 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.
> >
> > 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.
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> 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?--
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> Main FAQ file =
> Header
> List of questions/answer pairs
> Trailer
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> Question/Answer pair =
> List of newgroups this Q/A pair appears in
> Question
> Answer
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> 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
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 is the
material in the FAQ his copyrighted property unless he has been so
asserting (don't remember, and too lazy to go check). If not, let the
market decide. if someone else takes material from that FAQ, reformats
and greatly expands it, they could well post it to RTL as well. Unless
Tom does a better job, he would soon be supplanted, like it or not.
Running a FAQ *is* a volunteer job, but if you don't want to do the best
you can at it, step aside. That was personally a tough lesson for me to
learn (different context, but same principle).
--
Larry Pieniazek http://my.voyager.net/lar
For me: No voyager e-mail please. All snail-mail to Ada, please.
- Posting Binaries to RTL causes flamage... Don't do it, please.
- Stick to the facts when posting about others, please.
- This is a family newsgroup, thanks.
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| Why not an alternative FAQ?? The unauthorised, Kitty Kelly version, for instance? Quote, and give credit to, where it is due, or reference it extensively? It could be the official Lugnet FAQ/unofficial RTL FAQ.... Larry Pieniazek wrote in message (...) (26 years ago, 28-Dec-98, to lugnet.general)
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| (...) 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 (...) (26 years ago, 28-Dec-98, to lugnet.general)
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