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... -- Chris Lewis; [log in to unmask]; Phone: Canada 613 832-0541 Psroff 3.0 info: [log in to unmask] Ferret list: [log in to unmask]