Re: rec.arts.sf.written Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

David DeLaney wrote:
> On Wed, 19 Mar 2008 13:17:44 -0500, mimus <tinmimus99@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
> wrote:
>> On Wed, 19 Mar 2008 10:09:43 -0400, Evelyn C. Leeper wrote:
>>> The rec.arts.sf.written FAQ has gotten too large to continue to 
>>> post
>>
>> I don't know why you keep saying that.
>
> Psst: she's not actually retyping that sentence every month.
>
>> Have you ever seen a binaries group?
>> Let 'er rip!
>
> We are not a binaries group, however. Limiting the size of text 
> posts
> is something that has a couple points going for it, one of which is
> that you don't really want your ISP deciding that r.a.sf.w or
> r.a.sf.m has become a group that people post binaries to and also
> deciding to drop it on the floor from now on.

Another is that something the size of the FAQ works much better as a 
web page (searchable,scrollable, etc.) than as a Usenet post.  It 
would be even nicer formatted as HTML (which rules out Usenet 
posting); I don't know why no one's offered to convert it.