David DeLaney wrote:
> Evelyn C. Leeper <eleeper@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>> Anthony Nance wrote:
>>>> That one's quite nice. Google led me to the version at
>>>> http://www.faqs.org/faqs/sf/written-faq/,
which has only external
>>>> links .
>>> Yeah, I don't know how faqs.org gets their faqs, nor how often.
>> It would get there by my posting it to a moderated group. I could do
>> that from my work email, but when I retired in 2001, my new email
access
>> would not let me do that. :-(
>
> ...I'm thinking there's something else involved, if that's the
collection
> that gets FAQs from -all- of Usenet? I certainly remember that back when
my
> FAQ was being posted (over a decade ago), it didn't have to be posted to
a
> moderated group as such, though it did have to appear on one of the
*.answers
> groups, which are themselves moderated, but there was some mail-capable
> interface for that somehow.
>
> (Would looking into the options available at optonline.net for you help
any?
> Email and/or Usenet?)
That's what doesn't work.
It turns out that tons of the FAQs at faqs.org are outdated--nothing has
been updated in several years, and no one can locate anyone responsible
for it. However the domain has paid for through 2012, so there is
little hope of even just making it go away.
Bleh.
--
Evelyn C. Leeper
All art at some time and in some manner becomes mass entertainment,
and that if it does not it dies and is forgotten. --Raymond Chandler
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