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

Joe Bernstein wrote:

> In article <47e7aa75$0$25059$607ed4bc@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>, Evelyn C. Leeper 
> <eleeper@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> 
> [faqs.org, which is essentially a news.answers mirror]
> > 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 outdated--nothing has been updated in several years, and no one can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.
> 
> Um, well, 2012 is much closer than the last-modified date of many many
> FAQs.
> 
> The moderated news.* groups were mostly in advanced decay some years
> ago.  I was one of a board meant to revive news.announce.newgroups;
> I profoundly disagreed with the approach chosen by the majority of
> that board and handled the disagreement ineptly, so am no longer
> involved.  But one of the things that group did tackle with some
> degree of success was doing something about the mess in moderated
> news.*, and I know news.answers was on the list.  I just don't know
> what's happened more recently.
> 
> (This is partly a troll for Tim Skirvin, who is now head of the
> nan bunch and who once told me he'd started reading rasfw, to
> comment.)

Take a look at news.groups.proposals, for some idea of what's happened
recently.


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