Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!cs.utexas.edu!usc!apple!well!jef From: jef@well.sf.ca.us (Jef Poskanzer) Newsgroups: alt.sources.d Subject: Re: wp2latex (1 of 4) Message-ID: <19599@well.sf.ca.us> Date: 18 Aug 90 00:16:18 GMT References: <0M95QR2@xds13.ferranti.com> Reply-To: Jef Poskanzer Organization: Paratheo-Anametamystikhood Of Eris Esoteric, Ada Lovelace Cabal Lines: 24 In the referenced message, peter@hackercorp.com (Peter da Silva) wrote: }OK, I'll start a FAQ for alt.sources. You are not qualified to do this for at least two reasons. One, you are not on the Internet, so as you said your ability to verify information in a timely fashion is crippled. This is a minor point; if there was no one else willing to do it, and if there were no other reasons you shouldn't do it, then it would be fine. But there are others willing, and there are other reasons. Specifically, you are not impartial. It's fine to have opinions, even wrong ones. But a FAQ posting must represent either objective facts or general consensus. Your opinions on the Archive-Name header are neither, and codifying them into official rules, as you propose to do, would be an abuse of trust. A FAQ posting for alt.sources is a good idea, which I have supported for a long time. But by your own words you are not the person to do it. --- Jef Jef Poskanzer jef@well.sf.ca.us {ucbvax, apple, hplabs}!well!jef Contains no artificial sweeteners or colors.