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From: ajoec1@westminster.ac.uk (Adrian Ford)
Subject: Re: PLEASE READ - Re: Color space FAQ
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John Grieggs (grieggs@netcom.com) wrote:
: In article <D2HtJE.5qq@westminster.ac.uk>,
: "required" is a strong word.  The question is, do you wish it to act as
: a Usenet FAQ document, or not?

: If so, I would recommend adding a header to it, explaining more clearly
: its role in the universe, and posting it regularly.  FAQs also get
: archived on rtfm.mit.edu, which greatly enhances their availability.

: FAQs also need to be < 80 columns in width, unlike the current version
: of your file.  Sadly, much of the Usenet community is still on dumb
: terminals and/or printers.

: If you would rather it were an Internet resource but not an actual FAQ,
: like the Acrobat files, then a pointer to it would be plenty.

: I'll be delighted to add a pointer to both the ASCII and the Acrobat
: docs in the comp.graphics FAQ, whichever way you decide to go.  I do
: ask that resolve things with David first, tho, so we don't get another
: instance of multiple, divergent FAQ-like documents, like happened with
: the comp.graphics FAQ and the CGRL.

: >regards, adrian

: _john

I'm currently revising coloureq.txt according to the *answers guidelines.
I'm doing an HTML version too.

Agreed that multi-faq's is not a good idea, but is it worse than
misleading faq's ????

regards adrian.

