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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!swrinde!news.dell.com!natinst.com!hrd769.brooks.af.mil!hrd769.brooks.af.mil!not-for-mail From: burgess@hrd769.brooks.af.mil (Dave Burgess) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.development Subject: Re: FAQishness Date: 28 Jun 1993 16:38:44 -0500 Organization: Armstrong Laboratory, Brooks AFB, TX Lines: 40 Message-ID: <20nodi$g68@hrd769.brooks.af.mil> References: <20husfINN1b9@harpo.uccs.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: hrd769.brooks.af.mil In article <20husfINN1b9@harpo.uccs.edu> jmward@blanca.uccs.edu (Joel M. Ward) writes: > For a long time, we had almost no FAQ, and it sucked. You saw >the same questions over and over, and all the other ails that come from >being a FAQless newsgroup. > Now we have an awesome FAQ, i must say, and it's getting better! >Only problem is, i still see lots of requets for it/info about it. > > I think someone should whip together a FAQ for the FAQ and it >should be posted periodically, like the way i see ads for Minnie all >the time. It would be real easy with cron, wouldn't it? > > What does everyone think of tthis idea? > >BTW, if i get some positive feedback, the "someone" who will write this >document will be me. I think this would be A Good Thing. > One of the things that I have been doing of late is preparing the FAQ for wider dissemination. In addition, I have also automated chunks of FAQ_00 and FAQ_01 so that they are processed and pieces that I have no control over (the archie list, for example) are included with up to the minute information. I think that FAQ_00 would probably fulfill the FAQ of the FAQ document you are looking for, especially now that it includes a complete index/TOC as its last section. On the outside chance that this is the Right Thing, I will send a copy of it to cgd to be posted in c.o.3.announce. NOTE: There are still several sections of this beast that are not complete, and Mr. Kamens asked that I not post it to comp.answers while it was a 'work in progress'. If anyone would like to take on a section, you can always FTP them from hrd769.brooks.af.mil (the same place I have the QIC-80 stuff). -- ------ TSgt Dave Burgess NCOIC AL/Management Information Systems Office Brooks AFB, TX