Re: JSFAQ.org, Hosting and Contributors.

From	"Jukka K. Korpela" <jkorpela@cs.tut.fi>
Newsgroups	comp.lang.javascript
Subject	Re: JSFAQ.org, Hosting and Contributors.
Date	2013-11-03 09:13 +0200
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2013-11-02 20:55, Dr J R Stockton wrote:

> In comp.lang.javascript message <l50pcj$oor$1@dont-email.me>, Fri, 1 Nov
> 2013 19:45:57, Jukka K. Korpela <jkorpela@cs.tut.fi> posted:
>
>> Once upon a time, FAQs were really answers to Frequently Asked
>> Questions.
>
> That was not the real intent.

The statement you quoted describes what FAQs were, not what their intent 
was.

> They were intended to be the answers to
> *previously* frequently-asked questions, and thus to stop those
> questions remaining frequently-asked.

Hardly. The realistic intent was to provide a document that can be 
referred to when frequently asked questions were asked again. People 
would still post those questions, and would get miscellaneous wrong 
answers, but they might also get a a decent, compact statement like 
"This is a frequently asked question, which is answered at ...".

> With a sufficiently intelligent
> readership, the questions in the FAQ would never again be asked.

Few people, if any, expected Usenet users to be "sufficiently 
intelligent" in that sense, which is much more than just intelligence. 
We didn't really expect newcomers to even know that there is a FAQ, even 
in groups with regular FAQ postings. People just posted their questions 
without reading much of previous postings. We then hoped to help them 
and others by pointing them to the FAQ.

People seldom ask questions addressed in comp.lang.javascript FAQ any 
more. That's not because people are so intelligent, knowledgeable, and 
well-behaving that they look at the FAQ before posting. Rather, because 
this group has so little to offer. If you try asking how to compute 2 + 
2, you will get an essay-long lecture that starts from blaming you for 
the software you used for posting and ends nowhere, and carefully avoids 
answering the question in any useful way.

-- 
Yucca, http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/

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JSFAQ.org, Hosting and Contributors. dhtml <dhtmlkitchen@gmail.com> - 2013-10-19 11:56 -0700
  Re: JSFAQ.org, Hosting and Contributors. dhtml <dhtmlkitchen@gmail.com> - 2013-10-20 04:42 -0700
    Re: JSFAQ.org, Hosting and Contributors. John Harris <niam@jghnorth.org.uk.invalid> - 2013-10-21 15:50 +0100
      Re: JSFAQ.org, Hosting and Contributors. dhtml <dhtmlkitchen@gmail.com> - 2013-10-21 10:01 -0700
        Re: JSFAQ.org, Hosting and Contributors. John Harris <niam@jghnorth.org.uk.invalid> - 2013-10-22 20:04 +0100
        Re: JSFAQ.org, Hosting and Contributors. John Harris <niam@jghnorth.org.uk.invalid> - 2013-10-24 14:31 +0100
          Re: JSFAQ.org, Hosting and Contributors. dhtml <dhtmlkitchen@gmail.com> - 2013-10-24 15:08 -0700
            Re: JSFAQ.org, Hosting and Contributors. John Harris <niam@jghnorth.org.uk.invalid> - 2013-10-25 14:39 +0100
              Re: JSFAQ.org, Hosting and Contributors. dhtml <dhtmlkitchen@gmail.com> - 2013-10-25 14:41 -0700
  Re: JSFAQ.org, Hosting and Contributors. Dr J R Stockton <reply1300@merlyn.demon.co.uk.invalid> - 2013-10-20 17:37 +0100
    Re: JSFAQ.org, Hosting and Contributors. dhtml <dhtmlkitchen@gmail.com> - 2013-10-20 21:13 -0700
      Re: JSFAQ.org, Hosting and Contributors. Adam Silver <adambsilver@gmail.com> - 2013-10-21 07:49 -0700
        Re: JSFAQ.org, Hosting and Contributors. dhtml <dhtmlkitchen@gmail.com> - 2013-10-21 09:03 -0700
          Re: JSFAQ.org, Hosting and Contributors. Adam Silver <adambsilver@gmail.com> - 2013-10-22 07:06 -0700
            Re: JSFAQ.org, Hosting and Contributors. dhtml <dhtmlkitchen@gmail.com> - 2013-10-22 10:10 -0700
              Re: JSFAQ.org, Hosting and Contributors. Adam Silver <adambsilver@gmail.com> - 2013-10-22 10:28 -0700
                Re: JSFAQ.org, Hosting and Contributors. dhtml <dhtmlkitchen@gmail.com> - 2013-10-22 12:57 -0700
                Re: JSFAQ.org, Hosting and Contributors. dhtml <dhtmlkitchen@gmail.com> - 2013-10-22 13:33 -0700
            Re: JSFAQ.org, Hosting and Contributors. Christoph Michael Becker <cmbecker69@arcor.de> - 2013-10-29 03:45 +0100
              Re: JSFAQ.org, Hosting and Contributors. dhtml <dhtmlkitchen@gmail.com> - 2013-10-29 09:22 -0700
                Re: JSFAQ.org, Hosting and Contributors. Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2013-10-29 20:05 +0100
                Re: JSFAQ.org, Hosting and Contributors. dhtml <dhtmlkitchen@gmail.com> - 2013-10-29 19:41 -0700
                Re: JSFAQ.org, Hosting and Contributors. Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2013-10-30 09:35 +0100
                Re: JSFAQ.org, Hosting and Contributors. dhtml <dhtmlkitchen@gmail.com> - 2013-10-31 13:30 -0700
                Re: JSFAQ.org, Hosting and Contributors. "Michael Haufe (TNO)" <tno@thenewobjective.com> - 2013-10-30 11:57 -0700
                Re: JSFAQ.org, Hosting and Contributors. dhtml <dhtmlkitchen@gmail.com> - 2013-10-31 13:40 -0700
                Re: JSFAQ.org, Hosting and Contributors. Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2013-10-31 23:21 +0100
                Re: JSFAQ.org, Hosting and Contributors. dhtml <dhtmlkitchen@gmail.com> - 2013-10-31 15:28 -0700
                Re: JSFAQ.org, Hosting and Contributors. Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2013-10-31 23:50 +0100
                Re: JSFAQ.org, Hosting and Contributors. Dr J R Stockton <reply1300@merlyn.demon.co.uk.invalid> - 2013-11-02 18:48 +0000
                Re: JSFAQ.org, Hosting and Contributors. Cezary Tomczyk <cezary.tomczyk@gmail.com> - 2013-11-03 21:05 +0100
                Re: JSFAQ.org, Hosting and Contributors. Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2013-11-04 01:49 +0100
                Re: JSFAQ.org, Hosting and Contributors. Dr J R Stockton <reply1300@merlyn.demon.co.uk.invalid> - 2013-11-05 19:26 +0000
                Re: JSFAQ.org, Hosting and Contributors. Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2013-11-06 01:12 +0100
                Re: JSFAQ.org, Hosting and Contributors. Dr J R Stockton <reply1300@merlyn.demon.co.uk.invalid> - 2013-11-07 16:53 +0000
                Re: JSFAQ.org, Hosting and Contributors. Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2013-11-08 02:02 +0100
                Re: JSFAQ.org, Hosting and Contributors. Dr J R Stockton <reply1300@merlyn.demon.co.uk.invalid> - 2013-11-09 18:43 +0000
                Re: JSFAQ.org, Hosting and Contributors. Mike Duffy <md_002@videotron.ca> - 2013-11-06 00:22 -0500
                Re: JSFAQ.org, Hosting and Contributors. Cezary Tomczyk <cezary.tomczyk@gmail.com> - 2013-11-06 22:24 +0100
              Re: JSFAQ.org, Hosting and Contributors. Dr J R Stockton <reply1300@merlyn.demon.co.uk.invalid> - 2013-10-30 18:13 +0000
                Re: JSFAQ.org, Hosting and Contributors. "Michael Haufe (TNO)" <tno@thenewobjective.com> - 2013-10-30 20:08 -0700
              Re: JSFAQ.org, Hosting and Contributors. Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2013-10-31 07:12 +0100
              Re: JSFAQ.org, Hosting and Contributors. dhtml <dhtmlkitchen@gmail.com> - 2013-10-31 16:57 -0700
                Re: JSFAQ.org, Hosting and Contributors. Denis McMahon <denismfmcmahon@gmail.com> - 2013-11-01 16:27 +0000
                Re: JSFAQ.org, Hosting and Contributors. Mike Duffy <md_002@videotron.ca> - 2013-11-01 13:16 -0400
                Re: JSFAQ.org, Hosting and Contributors. dhtml <dhtmlkitchen@gmail.com> - 2013-11-02 09:49 -0700
                Re: JSFAQ.org, Hosting and Contributors. "Michael Haufe (TNO)" <tno@thenewobjective.com> - 2013-11-02 12:57 -0700
                Re: JSFAQ.org, Hosting and Contributors. Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2013-11-01 17:27 +0000
                Re: JSFAQ.org, Hosting and Contributors. "Jukka K. Korpela" <jkorpela@cs.tut.fi> - 2013-11-01 19:45 +0200
                Re: JSFAQ.org, Hosting and Contributors. Mike Duffy <md_002@videotron.ca> - 2013-11-01 14:51 -0400
                Re: JSFAQ.org, Hosting and Contributors. Dr J R Stockton <reply1300@merlyn.demon.co.uk.invalid> - 2013-11-02 18:55 +0000
                Re: JSFAQ.org, Hosting and Contributors. "Jukka K. Korpela" <jkorpela@cs.tut.fi> - 2013-11-03 09:13 +0200
                Re: JSFAQ.org, Hosting and Contributors. Tim Streater <timstreater@greenbee.net> - 2013-11-01 21:14 +0000
                Re: JSFAQ.org, Hosting and Contributors. Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2013-11-02 02:49 +0000
                Re: JSFAQ.org, Hosting and Contributors. Tim Streater <timstreater@greenbee.net> - 2013-11-02 08:48 +0000
                Re: JSFAQ.org, Hosting and Contributors. Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2013-11-02 13:07 +0000
                Re: JSFAQ.org, Hosting and Contributors. Tim Streater <timstreater@greenbee.net> - 2013-11-02 21:44 +0000
                Re: JSFAQ.org, Hosting and Contributors. "Michael Haufe (TNO)" <tno@thenewobjective.com> - 2013-11-02 12:45 -0700
                Re: JSFAQ.org, Hosting and Contributors. Denis McMahon <denismfmcmahon@gmail.com> - 2013-11-02 19:54 +0000
                Re: JSFAQ.org, Hosting and Contributors. "Michael Haufe (TNO)" <tno@thenewobjective.com> - 2013-11-02 12:58 -0700
                Re: JSFAQ.org, Hosting and Contributors. Denis McMahon <denismfmcmahon@gmail.com> - 2013-11-03 00:05 +0000
                Re: JSFAQ.org, Hosting and Contributors. Dr J R Stockton <reply1300@merlyn.demon.co.uk.invalid> - 2013-11-02 18:50 +0000

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