Date: Fri, 27 Sep 1996 14:33:41 -0400
From: dj (DJ Delorie)
Message-Id: <199609271833.OAA06779@delorie.com>
To: chuck AT no DOT junk DOT mail DOT com
CC: djgpp AT delorie DOT com
In-reply-to: <52gs2r$erq@butch.lmsc.lockheed.com> (chuck@no.junk.mail.com)
Subject: Re: djgpp faq


> well this is usenet, and it doesn't go into my mailbox.  it's a
> mailing list for you because someone decided (DJ I think) put up a
> mail gateway, but it's still a newsgroup, and FAQ's are posted to
> newsgroups.  as it is, i killfile all no-subject threads because
> they're almost invariably someone sending list commands to the
> newsgroup.

There's a gateway because that was in the group's charter.  It runs on
delorie.com, and is of my own design.  Without this gateway, the group
may not have been created, as there was a large contingent of
mail-only users who required such a gateway to win their vote.

Not all 30,000 newsgroups have FAQs posted regularly.  The DJGPP FAQ
is, by popular agreement, too large to post regularly (in fact, at
all).  This subject comes up often as new people think of it, and we
always agree not to post it.

Instead, there is already a regular (weekly) posting of the DJGPP
mini-FAQ which serves in its place.

Because of these reasons, it is not appropriate at any time to post
the DJGPP FAQ, in its entirety, on the comp.os.msdos.djgpp newsgroup.

In any event, nobody should choose to post the DJGPP FAQ regularly
without asking for, if not permission, at least agreement from the
principles involved - Eli, at least, since he wrote the FAQ, but a
short note to the group would have been best.

DJ