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From: jamie@cs.sfu.ca (Jamie Andrews)
Subject: Re: Public Domain Prolog
Message-ID: <1994Sep27.163306.6798@cs.sfu.ca>
Organization: Faculty of Applied Science, Simon Fraser University
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Date: Tue, 27 Sep 1994 16:33:06 GMT
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In article <368258$18@hobbes.cc.uga.edu>,
Michael Covington <mcovingt@ai.uga.edu> wrote:
>Further to previous posting, well, actually, I *don't* know whether
>you have answered any particular question by email...

     OK, well, I try to do so with every question that I see on
the newsgroup which is directly or indirectly answered by a
section from the FAQ list.

>I was just trying to be helpful.  I had no idea that providing on-topic
>information which is in demand was a forbidden practice on the net!!!

     IMHO you are usually very helpful, Michael -- it's just
that the purpose of having a FAQ list seems to be to minimize
the number of frequently asked questions and answers appearing
over and over on the newsgroup.  Responding to a FAQ, with an
article saying something that's in the FAQ list already, seems
to defeat this purpose.

--Jamie.
  jamie@cs.sfu.ca
"Make sure Reality is not twisted after insertion"
