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