Re: Objections to adverts?

From: echack@crl.com (Edmund C. Hack)

Date: Wed, 15 May 1996 00:00:00 +0000

In article <DrEo67.4tJ@deshaw.com>, Greg Lindahl <lindahl@deshaw.com> wrote:
>In article <4nab39$leu@epx.cis.umn.edu>,
>Garrett R Le-Page <lepag001@maroon.tc.umn.edu> wrote:
>
>> My only complaint
>>with Greg has been that he frequently responds to questions about "what
>>new games to play" by telling the poster to read the FAQ.  However, many
>>of these instances take place when I cannot find the FAQ posted.  If the
>>FAQ is going to be the only source for new game info, then it should be
>>posted constantly on the group.
>
>I post it once a week. There's no way for me to make it appear 100% of
>the time, and posting it more frequently would be annoying and
>probably wouldn't be any more effective -- people just ignore it.  I
>could add an "expires" header but they get ignored by most news software.
>
Um. You can get FAQs autoposted at whatever frequency you want by the
people at rtfm.mit.edu - a friend of mine administers 7 FAQs out of
there, one of which is done weekly to 8 groups.

--
Edmund Hack - echack@crl.com - Houston, TX
"Watching their faces, I was turning over aces." - Al Stewart

References

Objections to adverts?
Jim McLennan <jmclennan@trashcity.org>
Fri, 10 May 1996 00:00:00 +0000
Re: Objections to adverts?
lepag001@maroon.tc.umn.edu (Garrett R Le-Page)
Tue, 14 May 1996 00:00:00 +0000
Re: Objections to adverts?
lindahl@deshaw.com (Greg Lindahl)
Tue, 14 May 1996 00:00:00 +0000