> > Many newsgroups and mailing lists regularly post
> > the FAQ for the group (typically once per month).
> > This is a Good Thing.
>Agreed. If anyone reading this knows how to set up a FAQ mechanism
>I am sure that the effort would be appreciated.
At the moment, I'm up to my neck in alligators (or, more precisely,
kernel/swap problems with the server) but I have a marker down for a
"contributive" FAQ on the poplog.org website via FAQ-O-Matic. I'm not
sure that FAQ-O-Matic is the right solution and I have a couple of
others on the boil - but I have a sneaking suspicion that I ought to
cut to the chase and do it in XML (time to exercise Steve's owl/wow
code).
>One approximation to a FAQ is a hastily written file I put on the
>free poplog web/ftp site several months ago.
>
> http://www.cs.bham.ac.uk/research/poplog/comp.lang.pop.newsgroup
>which includes this:
>
> See also the FAQ assembled by Steve Leach:
> http://www.poplog.org/about/faq-list.html
Unfortunately, that link on the poplog.org website was ineffective in
that it simply reloaded the page. I have arranged for the page to
include Aaron's approximation (referred to above) and termed the
whole thing a "proto-FAQ". I have also changed the link to point to:
http://www.poplog.org/faq
>(I think that should be: Steve Leach and Graham Higgins.)
No, I perpetrated that ineffective link, all on my ownsome.
> > Someone (Steve Leach or Aaron?) should take
> > responsibility for posting regularly
I don't have access to an email-to-news gateway, otherwise I'd do that.
> > Regularly posting this information is particularly
>> important if the FAQ is not where you expect to
> > find it (e.g. at www.faqs.org ).
>
>So, how does it get put there, and would anyone
>like to do that?
www.faq.org says ...
>>How can I get my FAQ to appear in the archive
>>
>>This archive is updated automatically from a local ftp mirror of
>>the master FAQ archive site at MIT. If your FAQ is distributed via
>>the news.answers newsgroup then it will automatically appear in
>>this archive.
and, on another page, reports of the *.answers groups ...
>>A periodic posting maintainer who wants his or her posting(s) to
>>appear in news.answers (and other *.answers newsgroups) submits it to
>>the moderators, following the guidelines in the "*.answers submission
>>guidelines" article for proper submission and format of the posting's
>>headers.
I chased down some of their recommended links for writing and
formatting FAQs - only to find myself back on my own server, looking
at an out-of-date FAQ about writing FAQs - for which I am the
maintainer (sigh). I accept this synchronicity with due fatalism and
offer to take responsibility for maintaining the Popforum FAQ.
I'd appreciate suggestions as to what might consitute a candidate
structure for the document - either by email (remove the "-junk" from
"gjh-junk@bel-epa.com") or by direct entry into www.poplog.org's
"Twiki" collaboration facility on:
http://www.poplog.org/twiki/bin/view/Poplog/PopforumFAQ
>Just for information, comp.lang.pop postings are now
>archived at
> www.poplog.org
>
>i.e. in
> http://www.poplog.org/talk/
And there's a Harvest engine running there too.
--
Cheers,
Graham Higgins
--------------
Bel EPA Bristol, UK.
http://bel-epa.com
|