Subject: Re: Perhaps a FAQ, but...
To: Chris G. Demetriou <cgd@postgres.Berkeley.EDU>
From: Dj Padzensky <djpadz@uci.edu>
List: macbsd-general
Date: 02/14/1994 10:52:10
On Mon, 14 Feb 1994, Chris G. Demetriou wrote:
> You could put the FAQ in the info command for the list, but that's bad
> because people wanting random info about the list would get a possibly
> huge FAQ. also, it screws people getting 'info' for all of the lists,
> for the obvious reason. also, it's a bit of a maintenance headache,
> and it's somewhat unfriendly to drop a large piece of mail into
> somebody's mailbox w/o an explicit request for it...
Okay... How 'bout a pointer to the FAQ in the info message?
--Dj
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