tar@ksuvax1.cis.ksu.edu (Tim Ramsey) (11/27/89)
I'd like to propose that news.announce.newusers be used to distribute monthly "Commonly Asked Questions" (CAQ) articles for any newsgroup that cares to set one up. This would be done by someone (Spaf? Another moderator?) who has time to handle it. The moderator would: 1) Accept CAQ articles. The problem is: who do you accept CAQ articles from? Anyone, or only Well Known Posters? How do you get to be a WKP? What if there are 2 or more competing/conflicting CAQ articles? 2) Once a month, or at whatever interval the original sender wanted, cross- post the CAQ articles to news.announce.newusers and the newsgroup(s) that the CAQ article refers to. 3) Accept updates to the CAQ articles, and crosspost diffs between the old and new articles. Whadya think? Tim -- I get $.25 for every "CAQ" I use. Dept. of Computing and Information Sciences BITNET: tar@KSUVAX1 Kansas State University, Manhattan KS 66506 Internet: tar@ksuvax1.cis.ksu.edu Voice: (913) 532-6350 UUCP: ...!{rutgers,texbell}!ksuvax1!tar Fax: (913) 532-7114
edhew@xenitec.on.ca (Ed Hew) (11/28/89)
In article <4947@deimos.cis.ksu.edu> tar@ksuvax1.cis.ksu.edu (Tim Ramsey) writes: >I'd like to propose that news.announce.newusers be used to distribute monthly >"Commonly Asked Questions" (CAQ) articles for any newsgroup that cares to set >one up. This would be done by someone (Spaf? Another moderator?) who has >time to handle it. The moderator would: > >Whadya think? I remember posting a similar suggestion to news.announce.newusers a couple of months back. Anyone know what happened to *that* idea? IMHO this belongs in n.a.n. Of course it's a good idea. The questions keep getting asked over and over again, and to each new entrant to USENET, every question is quite valid. The only point I might add is that eventually it'll read like the sysV docs (long), so we might have a simple version on a rotating n.a.n. posting and an extended version available from the (whoever) moderator on email request. >Internet: tar@ksuvax1.cis.ksu.edu Voice: (913) 532-6350 >UUCP: ...!{rutgers,texbell}!ksuvax1!tar Fax: (913) 532-7114 --ed {edhew@xenitec.on.ca}