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  1. Newsgroups: misc.writing
  2. Path: sparky!uunet!charon.amdahl.com!pacbell.com!ames!haven.umd.edu!darwin.sura.net!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!pacific.mps.ohio-state.edu!linac!uchinews!kimbark!elle
  3. From: elle@kimbark.uchicago.edu (Ellen Keyne Seebacher)
  4. Subject: Re: Beginning Writing Books
  5. Message-ID: <1992Oct9.194020.22333@midway.uchicago.edu>
  6. Keywords: writing book
  7. Sender: news@uchinews.uchicago.edu (News System)
  8. Reply-To: elle@midway.uchicago.edu
  9. Organization: University of Chicago Computing Organizations
  10. References: <1992Oct8.211336.11711@asl.dl.nec.com> <1992Oct8.211746.11778@asl.dl.nec.com> <1992Oct9.180202.2633@Csli.Stanford.EDU>
  11. Date: Fri, 9 Oct 1992 19:40:20 GMT
  12. Lines: 30
  13.  
  14. olsen@Csli.Stanford.EDU (Diane Olsen) writes:
  15. >My favorite, which is obscure enough that it's unlikely to be in the FAQ
  16. >for this group (there IS one, isn't there?) ...
  17.  
  18. Yes.
  19.  
  20. >Speaking of the FAQ, if there is one, why don't I see it in news.answers?
  21.  
  22. As the "List of Periodic Informational Postings" (in news.answers) points
  23. out, it's posted every other month:
  24.  
  25.      Newsgroups: misc.writing,news.answers
  26.      Subject: FICTION: Misc.writing Frequently Asked Questions
  27.      From: betsyp@apollo.hp.com (Betsy Perry)
  28.      Frequency: every two months
  29.      Archive-name: writing/faq
  30.  
  31.      Newsgroups: misc.writing,news.answers
  32.      Subject: Misc.writing Recommended Booklist
  33.      From: betsyp@apollo.hp.com (Betsy Perry)
  34.      Frequency: every two months
  35.      Archive-name: writing/bibliography
  36.  
  37. As that article also points out, you can retrieve FAQs, via anonymous
  38. ftp from pit-manager.mit.edu [18.172.1.27], directories under "usenet"
  39. -- or by mail to mail-server@pit-manager.mit.edu, with the command
  40. "send usenet/name-of-newsgroup/name-of-archived-file" in the message.
  41.  
  42. --                    __
  43. Ellen Keyne Seebacher \/             elle@midway.uchicago.edu
  44.