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Author: Jürgen Exner Date: May 12, 2008 06:34
Philluminati gmail.com> wrote:>On May 12, 8:03 am, PerlFAQ Server stonehenge.com> wrote:[An FAQ entry]
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>Honestly, what is the point of posting this? It really doesn't help.
I disagree. In addition to those reasons mentioned in the frist few
lines of each FAQ posting (which are very valid) they also raise
awareness for newcomers about the existance of a large FAQ collection.
Plus it is a nice regular refresher for oldtimers, too.
>It makes the newsgroup harder to read and they are never relevant.
If you personally don't like them it is easy enough to filter them,
either by sender or by "FAQ" at the beginning of the title. That's why
they have a fixed sender and title format.
>It's basically spam. If the person doesn't google the question before
>posting then they sure as hell aren't going to search the group.
No, they won't. And nobody would expect them to, either.
But because 2 FAQ entries are posted daily they will see numerous of
those postings before writing to the NG and hopefully get the idea to
check the FAQ for their problem first.
>unless the correct answer to the question is on the groups active
>discussion page,
What do you mean by "active discussion page"?
> it really is a waste of space and bandwidth.
IMO its a good use of space and bandwith.
jue
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