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From: tedm@agora.rdrop.com
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Linux vs FreeBSD - have an faq
Date: 27 Jul 1996 17:27:42 GMT
Organization: Symantec Corporation
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In <4sadmf$fd5@uriah.heep.sax.de>, j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) writes:

[such deleted]

>how all these systems evolve.  If you write today that ``FooZoolix
>doesn't support The Great Mamboo wizzbang drives.'', this will already
>be wrong tomorrow.

Actually, you could write a FAQ that would simply be a list of other
online documentation.  (A Meta-FAQ?)  This might be a useful thing,
in most newsgroups a FAQ is posted monthly with a very long expiration
date and new users to the newsgroup see that when they first subscribe.

Ted