Joe Bernstein <joe@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> writes:
> [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 It turns out that tons of the FAQs at faqs.org are outdated--nothing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.
The real problem is that faqs.org isn't really a mirror of
news.answers anymore, it's a mirror of an *old version* of news.answers.
That's not very helpful to anyone. Past that, there is a FAQ maintainers
list again which is doing the old job, but I don't know how much has
happened lately and I don't think they have any way to affect the faqs.org
mess.
> (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.)
I'm actually stepping down from the "head" position shortly, and
I'm well behind on my rasfw reading lately. But that's okay, it still
worked. (Happy April!)
- Tim Skirvin (skirv@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
)
--
http://www.big-8.org/
Big-8 Management Board
http://www.killfile.org/~tskirvin/
Skirv's Homepage <FISH>< <*>
|
