Just zis Guy, you know? wrote:

In case you're interested and/or didn't know, Simon Ward has emailed me to
say that he is no longer the official FAQ keeper for this NG, and the FAQ is
essentially in abeyance.

There are those who think FAQs are obsolete, but I'm not one of them (not
least because they act as a sort of homepage for a Usenet group).

I have it in mind to resurrect the FAQ and update it. But not if anyone
else wants to because I have plenty of other things to do with my time.

I could also host it on my free ISP webspace (not my home server which can
be subject to arbitrary outage, e.g. when I decide to break it trying to
apply an update). Unless anyone else has a robustly hosted site where they
would be prepared to host it (several possibilities spring to mind).

Your thoughts?




My thoughts:

1) massive FAQs don't get read and are worthless.
2) short welcome FAQs [1] posted regularly [2] are essential
3) I would be willing to contribute in both time, content and server
space as well as linking from my signature.
4) however, I wouldn't want to do it all on my own - group effort please

[1] a few pages at most, easy on the eye and valuable content only -
check the welcome faq of uk.people.bodyart to see the idea

[2] once a fortnight perhaps? long enough not to bore but regular enough
that most newbies will see it in their initial post downloads.


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