From: "A. Sinan Unur" Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp Subject: Interesting FAQs Date: Thu, 14 Aug 1997 18:42:55 -0400 Organization: Cornell University http://www.cornell.edu Lines: 23 Sender: asu1 AT cornell DOT edu (Verified) Message-ID: <33F389EF.4134@cornell.edu> Reply-To: asu1 AT cornell DOT edu NNTP-Posting-Host: cu-dialup-0096.cit.cornell.edu Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com DJ-Gateway: from newsgroup comp.os.msdos.djgpp Precedence: bulk well, given the recent debate over the faq, i wnet to http://www.dejanews.com and search for the occurence of the word faq between 6/1 and 7/1 in comp.os.msdos.djgpp. the search returned 198 matches. i do have other things to do (believe it or not), so i just looked at the first 25 matches. out of these 25, 8 were either the weekly mini-faq posts, or general discussions which i could not classify as questions or answers. there were 4 questions that included the word faq in them, and 13 answers. out of the 13, 10 contained _specific_ references to the sections in the faq. i consider this as a sign that most of the time, people do get specific pointers (most of which come from eli, obviously.) -- Sinan ******************************************************************* A. Sinan Unur WWWWWW |--O+O mailto:sinan DOT unur AT cornell DOT edu C ^ http://www.people.cornell.edu/pages/asu1/ \ ~/ Unsolicited e-mail is _not_ welcome, and will be billed for. *******************************************************************