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Re: How about a FAQ?

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From: Ummm... me!
Date: Sat, 21 Nov 1992 20:22
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In article <19105.2b0e0cc8@ecs.umass.edu> nllopis@ecs.umass.edu writes:
>In article <1eepklINNq3c@aludra.usc.edu>, mduffy@aludra.usc.edu (Michael Duffy) writes:
>> Hmmm... I shudder to bring up this topic but......
>> 
>> I have yet to see a FAQ for this group, or at least a comprehensive one.
>> I know that a number of partial FAQs are floating around, and I want to know
>> what you guys think about putting together a definitive collection.  There

   [stuff deleted...]

>	To me it sounds like a GREAT idea. I am a newcomer to the
>newgroup although I have been programming games for a _long_
>while, and I would really enjoy having a comprehensive FAQ list
>(from which I am sure I could take lots of hints). I would also
>love to share what I know to contribute to it.
>	How to distribute it? Hmm.... I guess the obvious answer is 
>to post it once every week or so in the newgroup. E-mail would
>be nice but surely more time consuming. FTP... well, that'd be
>OK too... but where?

   I've heard rumours that many, many various FAQs are stored on an
anonymous FTP site called pit-manager.mit.edu (although I've never checked
it out), so perhaps we could keep a copy of it there.

     - Mark Rosteck -
(ematias@csri.toronto.edu)
(g1marker@cdf.toronto.edu)
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From: ematias@csri.toronto.edu (Ummm... me!)
Subject: Re: How about a FAQ?
Message-ID: <1992Nov21.152250.10901@jarvis.csri.toronto.edu>
Organization: CSRI, University of Toronto
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Date: 21 Nov 92 20:22:50 GMT
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