Suggestions for list-penance are welcome!

[Patrick O'Connell <patricko -at- EICON -dot- COM>]

Re: the whole Andreas thing, I NEVER intended to start a flame-war, and I'm
sorry. I got some pretty scathing and humbling private mail from people;
consider me suitably chastened.

I've been thinking about starting and managing a FAQ for the winhlp-l list.
For those not familiar with the concept, briefly:  FAQ stands for Frequently
Asked Questions; a FAQ is a regularly updated and posted list of such
questions and answers to them. FAQs exist to save the time required on the
part of more experienced [whatever]s to answer questions that get asked very
often by brand-new [whatever]s, ones that experienced [whatever]s know the
answers to, and which would chew up considerable amounts of their valuable
time to answer. If you're new to a group and post a lot of naive (to others)
questions, they'll point you to the FAQ if it exists.

Usenet newsgroups have 'em in spades; why not winhlp-l? AND, for that matter
(here's the penance part), why not techwr-l? I'm quite willing to undertake
this responsibility. The question is, does techwr-l NEED a FAQ?


Cheers
PatO'
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