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From: keating@rex.cs.tulane.edu (John W. Keating)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
Subject: Re: FAQs
Message-ID: <4745@rex.cs.tulane.edu>
Date: 30 Oct 90 20:07:55 GMT
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Organization: Computer Science Dept., Tulane Univ., New Orleans, LA
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In article <9848.6524.forumexp@mts.rpi.edu> Barry Bailey writes:
>
>   I too would like to thank Tom for compiling the most often asked
>   questions.

Ditto....

>   [Barry's idea about creating a comp.windows.ms.faqs newsgroup to
>    take care of the frequently asked questions list deleted for
>    brevity's sake...]
>
>   any thoughts, suggestions, flames...

This is not a flame, just my thoughts on the matter...  :^)

I, personally, don't think such an idea would be that useful.  Most of
the people who would ask such questions would likely not look there first
for the answers.  The best bet (though it would increase bandwidth  :^(  )
would be to just post the faq here on this list once a week.  This would
allow anyone just signing on a reasonable chance to catch the list before
it gets purged from their systems.  (Actually, considering that its main
purpose is to stop the asking of common questions, I guess it would still
be lowering total bandwidth, even after posting once a week.)  The next
step would be to find someone who would post it every weekend.  (The person
who wrote it?  Another sucke...  errr, volunteer?)


    John Keating
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