jpero(a)cgo.wave.ca wrote: It has been happening on Usenet for longer than some of our members have been out of diapers. It will _always_ be a factor in mailing lists and newsgroups. FAQs help a lot, but they are not always read. In mailing lists, the best bet seems to be to include the FAQ in the response to the Subscribe request. It would be even better if it were easy to require that the subscriber afirm that the FAQ had been read in return mail before the subscription actually started. But there is _still_ no way to guarantee that the FAQ was actually read, any more than we know that a politician swearing an oath to "preserve and protect the constitution of the United States" ever read that particular document. In the latter case of course all of the evidence is negative. -- Ward Griffiths "Men will never be free until the last king is strangled with the entrails of the last priest." [Denis Diderot, "Dithyrambe sur la fete de rois"]

On Sat, 22 Nov 1997, Peter Joules wrote: Hmmm. Perhaps there should be a quiz during the subscription process whereby you are asked 10 questions that you will only know the answer to if you've read the FAQ. Sam Alternate e-mail: dastar(a)siconic.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Computer Historian, Programmer, Musician, Philosopher, Athlete, Writer, Jackass Coming Soon...Vintage Computer Festival 2.0 See http://www.siconic.com/vcf for details!