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  End of daily FAQ-postings Bart Van der Donck <bart@nijlen.com> - 2013-11-21 23:58 -0800
    Re: End of daily FAQ-postings Hans-Georg Michna <hans-georgNoEmailPlease@michna.com> - 2013-11-22 11:27 +0100
    Re: End of daily FAQ-postings Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2013-11-22 12:43 +0100
      Re: End of daily FAQ-postings "Michael Haufe (TNO)" <tno@thenewobjective.com> - 2013-11-22 06:22 -0800
      Re: End of daily FAQ-postings Bart Van der Donck <bart@nijlen.com> - 2013-11-22 07:56 -0800
      Re: End of daily FAQ-postings Christoph Michael Becker <cmbecker69@arcor.de> - 2013-11-22 19:56 +0100

#22125 — End of daily FAQ-postings

Hello,

The daily FAQ-postings have been discontinued since
this morning, upon request of some of the regulars
of this group. I'm sorry I didn't pick up that message
earlier; I'm not so intensely following this group
anymore.

A word of thanks to Pair Networks, who allowed me to
proficiently host the Perl scripts during 2006-2013.
Also thanks to SunSite.dk for the free Usenet service.

-- 
 Bart

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#22126

On Thu, 21 Nov 2013 23:58:35 -0800 (PST), Bart Van der Donck
wrote:

>The daily FAQ-postings have been discontinued since
>this morning, upon request of some of the regulars
>of this group. I'm sorry I didn't pick up that message
>earlier; I'm not so intensely following this group
>anymore.
>
>A word of thanks to Pair Networks, who allowed me to
>proficiently host the Perl scripts during 2006-2013.
>Also thanks to SunSite.dk for the free Usenet service.

Why not reduce them to weekly or some such?

Hans-Georg

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#22129

Bart Van der Donck wrote:

> The daily FAQ-postings have been discontinued since
> this morning, upon request of some of the regulars
> of this group. I'm sorry I didn't pick up that message
> earlier; I'm not so intensely following this group
> anymore.
> 
> A word of thanks to Pair Networks, who allowed me to
> proficiently host the Perl scripts during 2006-2013.
> Also thanks to SunSite.dk for the free Usenet service.

I do not usually follow-up to, much less read, postings from address 
mungers [1], particularly not when they are posting via the current version 
of Google Groups [2], but in this case:

Thank you.


The question is now: how to proceed?  Are any FAQ postings wanted anymore?  

If yes, I could adapt my XSL stylesheet to generate appropriate plain-text 
output from the “FAQ for comp.lang.javascript” and set up an auto-poster.
I would appreciate it then if I could use, and perhaps improve on, your 
code.

And if FAQ postings are wanted here, what format and schedule would be 
considered appropriate?

( ) Weekly posting of the entire FAQ
( ) Daily posting of randomly selected FAQ entries
( ) ______________________________________________

______
[1] <http://www.interhack.net/pubs/munging-harmful/>
[2] <news:2285587.1CSdtDc5Ud@PointedEars.de>
    <news:1821724.kdLfG0QQBj@PointedEars.de>
    <news:5611046.nx9y0nniJf@PointedEars.de>
    <news:10324308.NaK4W3vaeN@PointedEars.de>
    and so on
-- 
PointedEars, ed.

Twitter: @PointedEars2
Please do not Cc: me. / Bitte keine Kopien per E-Mail.

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#22131

On Friday, November 22, 2013 5:43:33 AM UTC-6, Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn wrote:

> The question is now: how to proceed?  Are any FAQ postings wanted anymore?  
> 
> If yes, I could adapt my XSL stylesheet to generate appropriate plain-text 
> output from the “FAQ for comp.lang.javascript” and set up an auto-poster.
> I would appreciate it then if I could use, and perhaps improve on, your 
> code.
> 
> And if FAQ postings are wanted here, what format and schedule would be 
> considered appropriate?
> 
> ( ) Weekly posting of the entire FAQ
> ( ) Daily posting of randomly selected FAQ entries
> ( ) ______________________________________________


Weekly posting of 1+ randomly selected FAQ entries

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#22135

Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn wrote:

> Bart Van der Donck wrote:
> 
>> The daily FAQ-postings have been discontinued since
>> this morning, upon request of some of the regulars
>> of this group. I'm sorry I didn't pick up that message
>> earlier; I'm not so intensely following this group
>> anymore.
>>
>> A word of thanks to Pair Networks, who allowed me to 
>> proficiently host the Perl scripts during 2006-2013. 
>> Also thanks to SunSite.dk for the free Usenet service.
> 
> I do not usually follow-up to, much less read, postings from 
> address mungers [1], particularly not when they are posting 
> via the current version of Google Groups [2], but in this case:
> 
> Thank you.
> 
> The question is now: how to proceed? Are any FAQ postings 
> wanted anymore?  

The script for the daily automated FAQ postings was released to the public domain:

https://groups.google.com/d/msg/comp.lang.javascript/EpiZajjkneM/1mPDoV8yNssJ

This can perfectly be weekly as well like Hans-Georg suggests, it depends on the crontab that executes the .pl. Personally I find small frequent content units more digestible than one giant post of the entire FAQ. The sendout is not random but kept in a counter file.

For the SunSite Usenet account's password, please send a private message to bart at dotinternet dot be.

-- 
 Bart

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#22144

Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn wrote:

> And if FAQ postings are wanted here, what format and schedule would be 
> considered appropriate?

As before, but only once per week.

-- 
Christoph M. Becker

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