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From: CKBERG@UGA.cc.uga.edu (Cathy Krusberg)
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Subject: Talk: Who reads FAQs anyway
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In article <3bvc2c$1ps@gagme.wwa.com>
boba@wwa.com (Bob Allison) writes:
 
>Matt Messina wrote:
>>
>>Bob Allison wrote:
>>>   Unfortunately, many people (including myself at times) don't want to
>>>bother reading a FAQ.  It's too bad 'cause a lot of folks supplied info
>>>to make the ASCII ART FAQ fairly solid.  You can learn an awful lot from
>>>the FAQ (especially the longer versions).
>>
>>This might be because many FAQs are *huge* (e.g. the ASCII Art FAQ).
>
>   Well taken.  Size does have it's down side too.  The upside is that's
>it's all in one place.  One doc to handle, and only fifty some K too!
 
 [snip!]
 
>>How about splitting the FAQ into 3 articles when you post it?  There
>>could be a "Questions about ASCII Art" section, a "Where to find ASCII
>>Art" section, and a "How to make a .plan, use FTP, etc." section.
>
>   Leave it to Matt to think of what I'm thinking.  I just haven't done
>it.
 
I'd like to offer another motive for doing it: limitations
on some readers' newsreaders.  My newsreader can't handle
anything bigger than 1500 lines; chops the sucker off right
there!  So I can't get the whole ASCII Art FAQ as posted.
What's even worse is that the part on how to *get* the FAQ
is near the bottom of the file -- past the 1500 line mark --
so I never get to see that part and learn how else I can obtain
the FAQ!!
 
Get yer scissors out, Scarecrow!  :)
 
>>Any comments?
>
>   Yeah, where the obascii art?
 
 
Just in time for the Christmas Season: an ascii *hug* -- !
 
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