On Aug 6, 13:27, Dan Lester wrote:
} Subject: Re: SCIFAQ-L errors
} On Fri, 6 Aug 1993 10:58:16 -0400 Una Smith said:
} >PS:  Perhaps the LISTSERV help documents should be posted periodically in
} >the Usenet newsgroup bit.admin.  They might also be made into formal Usenet
} >FAQs for cross-posting in news.answers and archival on rtfm.mit.edu.  This
 
}    Makes sense to me.  Of course there just might be a few usenet purists
} who would object to even that much tainting of their sacred ground.  o-)
} btw, I use Bitnet, Internet, and Usenet regularly, and have no interest
} in getting into any religious warfare on their various pros and cons,
} advantages and disadvantages, etc.
 
Simply making a FAQ available (a LISTSERV one would be particularly
valuable) isn't likely to start up flames.  There's FAQs on fidonet
et. al., (which are even worse than bitnet ;-), and they don't generate
flames by themselves.
 
What would be particularly funny is if someone fed a LISTSERV with
the newsgroups (say, news.answers) where the LISTSERV FAQ was posted.
Then the LISTSERV duplicate checking code would start bouncing it's own
FAQ...
 
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