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- From: kamorgan@athena.mit.edu (Keith Morgan)
- Subject: Re: Facts on FAQs
- Message-ID: <1992Dec23.032744.22597@athena.mit.edu>
- Followup-To: rec.arts.books, alt.fan.lemur
- Sender: kamorgan@athena.mit.edu (Keith Morgan)
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- Organization: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- References: <1gsobtINN7vi@morrow.stanford.edu> <1992Dec18.181935.7731@cbnewsj.cb.att.com>
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- Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1992 03:27:44 GMT
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- In article <1992Dec18.181935.7731@cbnewsj.cb.att.com> ecl@cbnewsj.cb.att.com (Evelyn C. Leeper) writes:
- >In article <1gsobtINN7vi@morrow.stanford.edu> francis@oas.stanford.edu (Francis Muir) writes:
- >> Evelyn C. Leeper writes:
- >>
- >> I should also note that the rec.arts.books FAQ does mention
- >> rec.arts.sf.reviews as a place to find book reviews.
- >>
- >> I am a regular user of the net and have been for some time, and while I
- >> know what a FAQ is (some might not) I haven't a clue how to get into one.
- >> It would be helpful if FAQ reminders described what a FAQ was and informed
- >> on their use.
- >
- >What we have here is a bootstrapping problem.
- >
- >A FAQ is a "Frequently Asked Questions" list posted regularly to the
- >group; in this case the Subject: line would be "rec.arts.books
- >Frequently Asked Questions".
- >
- >The use of FAQs is discussed in the various documents in
- >news.announce.newusers.
-
- Another point that might be made is that most of the FAQ
- documents can be acquired from various sites. I know that the
- Arthurian FAQ lists such information below the header. For example,
- the RAB FAQ can be found by ftp to pit-manager.mit.edu with login as
- "anonymous" and your email address as password. Then cd
- pub/usenet/rec.arts.books, do a "ls" to make sure it's there and you
- can "get" the FAQ downloaded to you by typing "get <filename>. This is
- a necessarily abbreviated point that is, I hope, accurate in its
- essentials.
-
- Further info is available, as Evelyn suggests, in
- news.announce.newusers.
-
- Keith
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-
- Keith Morgan kamorgan@athena.mit.edu
- In the end nothing could be said of his work except that it was
- preposterous and true and totally unacceptable. Edward Whittemore
-