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From: jamie@cs.sfu.ca (Jamie Andrews)
Subject: Re: Public Domain Prolog and FAQs
Message-ID: <1994Sep29.172237.10144@cs.sfu.ca>
Organization: Faculty of Applied Science, Simon Fraser University
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Date: Thu, 29 Sep 1994 17:22:37 GMT
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In article <brady-280994101645@brady.cs.tcd.ie>,
Michael Brady <brady@cs.tcd.ie> wrote:
>I don't mind if a frequently asked question is answered via the newsgroup,
>because I can always skip the thread if I want, and indeed I might learn
>something new myself. The bandwidth used is negligible (even all the way to
>and from Ireland).

     I understand your point of view.  Let me just say this.
The original problem that having a FAQ list was to address, was
the problem that certain questions are asked over and over, and
each is answered with several similar postings of not
necessarily comprehensive information.

     Carried to an extreme, this problem traffic can indeed be
annoying to have to wade through.  If it's just one posting once
in a while, it's not annoying at all.  I appreciate the public
spirit of those that post answers that are already in the FAQ
list; I just hope that not too many others become similarly
public-spirited (:-)), since at some point the public good
becomes ill-served.

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