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From: gwyn@smoke.BRL.MIL (Doug Gwyn)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: Frequently asked questions in these groups deserve a monthly posting
Message-ID: <10369@smoke.BRL.MIL>
Date: 6 Jun 89 14:44:59 GMT
References: <21089@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu> <810060@hpsemc.HP.COM>
Reply-To: gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn)
Organization: Ballistic Research Lab (BRL), APG, MD.
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In article <810060@hpsemc.HP.COM> gph@hpsemc.HP.COM (Paul Houtz) writes:
>When you create a list of frequently asked questions, you inadvertently
>create a rule that everyone must pour through that list every time they
>want to ask a question, ...

Not at all.  Having read the list once, everyone now knows the answers
to those questions.  There is no need to refer to it later when asking
for enlightenment, because one is not going to ask about something
already understood.