Apologies in advance. This isn't really the right place to bring this up,
but I didn't want to open up discussion to the entire c.l.py without a
little feedback first. I volunteer to take this off-list (maybe there's a
more appropriate list already set up meta-sig?) and come back with a
recommendation to the assembled masses here or elsewhere.
Many newsgroups post FAQs on a regular basis. I wonder if it wouldn't be
such a bad idea to try and figure out how to do that with the Python FAQ. A
few issues come to mind:
1. Availability in plain text. Is it? I only every use the FAQ wizard
any more, so I don't know.
2. How to keep it from percolating to the mailing list? I doubt people
are going to want weekly or monthly mailings of the form "Python FAQ
part 1/13" on a regular basis. I suspect the mail/news gateway could
be trained to recognize this special message, perhaps if it was
cross-posted to one other special newsgroup (misc.answers or whatever
catches all the FAQs in the known universe).
3. Maybe a completely different form is needed for periodic posting - a
Mini-FAQ - which answers the most egregious questions like "why
whitespace indentation?" and "how do I run this thing I just
downloaded?", then refers to the real FAQ URL for everything else.
Comments?
Skip Montanaro | http://www.mojam.com/
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