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Article #249Re: FAQ's and how to get people to read them (Our answer)
From: Paul Harris
Date: Sun, 24 Jan 1993 22:25
Date: Sun, 24 Jan 1993 22:25
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In <1993Jan20.161439.16569@ohm.york.ac.uk> nigelm@ohm.york.ac.uk (Nigel Metheringham) writes: >What I am experimenting with, is taking the well formatted FAQs and >building splitter programs (in Perl) to dump each section of the FAQ >into a gopher directory, also building a full index. Then for Perl >(for example) you find the appropriate directory on your gopher and >have a list of the FAQ sections, along with an index search >facility. >Seems to work very nicely, although its just at test stage, so I >mean I like it and the users haven't seen it! > Nigel. >-- ># Nigel Metheringham -- (NeXT) EMail: nigelm@ohm.york.ac.uk # ># System Administrator, Electronics Dept, University of York # ># York YO1 5DD. Phone: +44 904 432374, Fax: +44 904 432335 # Keep up the good work!!!! I have a reasonable memory (still) but not good enough for rarely used items in FAQ's, and I often neeed to re-read something so I can remember it! Regards, Paul Harris
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!utcsri!torn!spool.mu.edu!agate!usenet.ins.cwru.edu!gatech!paladin.american.edu!darwin.sura.net!sgiblab!munnari.oz.au!yoyo.aarnet.edu.au!news.adelaide.edu.au!pharris From: pharris@roseworthy.adelaide.edu.au (Paul Harris) Newsgroups: news.admin.misc,news.future,news.groups,news.misc,news.software.readers Subject: Re: FAQ's and how to get people to read them (Our answer) Date: 24 Jan 1993 22:25:04 GMT Organization: The University of Adelaide Lines: 25 Message-ID: <1jv500INNgqp@huon.itd.adelaide.edu.au> References: <93011918544700081@stefan.spn.com> <1993Jan20.161439.16569@ohm.york.ac.uk> NNTP-Posting-Host: tellus.roseworthy.adelaide.edu.au