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  Who's in change of the PS FAQ? luser- -droog <mijoryx@yahoo.com> - 2014-08-06 22:55 -0700
    Re: Who's in change of the PS FAQ? idol programmer <idprog@trust.com> - 2014-08-07 12:20 +0100
      Re: Who's in change of the PS FAQ? Ross Presser <rpresser@gmail.com> - 2014-08-07 13:57 -0700
      Re: Who's in change of the PS FAQ? tlvp <mPiOsUcB.EtLlLvEp@att.net> - 2014-08-07 21:09 -0400
        Re: Who's in change of the PS FAQ? Ross Presser <rpresser@gmail.com> - 2014-08-08 10:49 -0700
          Re: Who's in change of the PS FAQ? luser- -droog <mijoryx@yahoo.com> - 2014-08-08 10:54 -0700
            Re: Who's in change of the PS FAQ? tlvp <mPiOsUcB.EtLlLvEp@att.net> - 2014-08-09 03:33 -0400
              Re: Who's in change of the PS FAQ? Eli the Bearded <*@eli.users.panix.com> - 2014-08-09 18:05 +0000
    Re: Who's in change of the PS FAQ? Cecil Westerhof <Cecil@decebal.nl> - 2014-08-07 14:24 +0200
      Re: Who's in change of the PS FAQ? luser- -droog <mijoryx@yahoo.com> - 2014-08-09 21:29 -0700
        Re: Who's in change of the PS FAQ? luser- -droog <mijoryx@yahoo.com> - 2014-08-09 21:33 -0700
    Re: Who's in change of the PS FAQ? luser- -droog <mijoryx@yahoo.com> - 2014-08-13 00:25 -0700

#1957 — Who's in change of the PS FAQ?

I'm wondering if anyone knows how the FAQ thing works. We seem to have
one out there on the net associated with this newsgroup. But it has
not been updated in a long time.

And what about setting up a periodic automatic posting to the group?
Despite my efforts, we're still pretty low-volume. My list of topics
goes back to May before I have to start scrolling. So how about 
something like every 6 months? January 1 & July 1.

And can we connect it to some kind of wiki, so we can update it?

Anybody know?

-- 
droogie

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#1959

On 07/08/2014 06:55, luser- -droog wrote:
> I'm wondering if anyone knows how the FAQ thing works. We seem to have
> one out there on the net associated with this newsgroup. But it has
> not been updated in a long time.
>
> And what about setting up a periodic automatic posting to the group?
> Despite my efforts, we're still pretty low-volume. My list of topics
> goes back to May before I have to start scrolling. So how about
> something like every 6 months? January 1 & July 1.
>
> And can we connect it to some kind of wiki, so we can update it?
>
> Anybody know?
>
This one?   ftp://ftp.cs.brown.edu/pub/comp.lang.postscript/FAQ.txt

It has contact details at the bottom for Jon Monsarrat.

Just reading it all now.  But posting a link on the group periodically 
seems a good idea to me.

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#1962

On Thursday, August 7, 2014 7:20:06 AM UTC-4, idol programmer wrote:
> On 07/08/2014 06:55, luser- -droog wrote:

> This one?   ftp://ftp.cs.brown.edu/pub/comp.lang.postscript/FAQ.txt
> It has contact details at the bottom for Jon Monsarrat.

Last updated July 1994!!!
>  2.3  07-07-94 Incorporated early '94 comments and suggestions.  
  
I think it's pretty unlikely that Jon is still using that email address.

Someone should take it over.

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#1963

On Thu, 07 Aug 2014 12:20:06 +0100, idol programmer wrote:

> This one?   ftp://ftp.cs.brown.edu/pub/comp.lang.postscript/FAQ.txt
> 
> It has contact details at the bottom for Jon Monsarrat.
> 
> Just reading it all now.  But posting a link on the group periodically 
> seems a good idea to me.

The FTP link given above cites a moderated NG comp.sources.postscript which
my current NSP doesn't offer. Is that group simply extinct? Or should I bug
my NSP to try to procure it for his spools? Thanks for your best advice. 

Cheers, -- tlvp
-- 
Avant de repondre, jeter la poubelle, SVP.

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#1964

On Thursday, August 7, 2014 9:09:01 PM UTC-4, tlvp wrote:

> The FTP link given above cites a moderated NG comp.sources.postscript which
> my current NSP doesn't offer. Is that group simply extinct? Or should I bug
> my NSP to try to procure it for his spools? Thanks for your best advice. 

I seriously doubt *any* of the comp.sources.* hierarchy are *not* extinct.
Long extinct. Like, pre-preCambrian extinct.

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#1965

On Friday, August 8, 2014 12:49:48 PM UTC-5, Ross Presser wrote:
> On Thursday, August 7, 2014 9:09:01 PM UTC-4, tlvp wrote:
> 
> > The FTP link given above cites a moderated NG comp.sources.postscript which
> > my current NSP doesn't offer. Is that group simply extinct? Or should I bug
> > my NSP to try to procure it for his spools? Thanks for your best advice. 
> 
> I seriously doubt *any* of the comp.sources.* hierarchy are *not* extinct.
> Long extinct. Like, pre-preCambrian extinct.

The archives are available through googlegroups. 
https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/comp.sources.postscript

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#1966

On Fri, 8 Aug 2014 10:54:50 -0700 (PDT), luser- -droog wrote:

 [ re comp.sources.* ]
 
> The archives are available through googlegroups. 
> https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/comp.sources.postscript

Yes ... and seem to stop sometime in 1995 unless I've overlooked something.

Cheers, -- tlvp
-- 
Avant de repondre, jeter la poubelle, SVP.

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#1967

In comp.lang.postscript, tlvp  <mPiOsUcB.EtLlLvEp@att.net> wrote:
> On Fri, 8 Aug 2014 10:54:50 -0700 (PDT), luser- -droog wrote:
>  [ re comp.sources.* ]
> > The archives are available through googlegroups. 
> > https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/comp.sources.postscript
> Yes ... and seem to stop sometime in 1995 unless I've overlooked something.

Maybe that's when the moderator went missing? I know a bit about Usenet
administration, so I went to the control message archive:

ftp://ftp.isc.org/pub/usenet/control-old/comp/comp.sources.postscript.Z

It was voted on in Feb 1993 and created Feb 23, 1993.

Group submission address:   postscript@cs.brown.edu
Moderator contact address:  postscript-request@cs.brown.edu
                                                        (Jonathan Monsarrat)

The ftp.isc.org archive is not as thorough as the old ftp.uu.net
archive, which I tried to reach today but could not. It has only
'newgroup' messages, not 'rmgroup'.

The current 'active' list at ftp.isc.org lists only these sources groups
as still in existence:

ftp://ftp.isc.org/pub/usenet/CONFIG/active.gz

comp.sources.bugs 0000000000 0000000001 y
comp.sources.d 0000000000 0000000001 y
comp.sources.games 0000000000 0000000001 m
comp.sources.testers 0000000000 0000000001 y
comp.sources.wanted 0000000000 0000000001 y

I do remember the comp.sources.* groups getting a massive clean out a
few years ago.

Elijah
------
comp.sources.* always had large competition with ftp 

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#1960

Op Thursday 7 Aug 2014 07:55 CEST schreef luser:

> Despite my efforts, we're still pretty low-volume. My list of topics

Well, I want to play again with postscript. I do not have to be afraid
to post questions here then. :-D

-- 
Cecil Westerhof
Senior Software Engineer
LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/cecilwesterhof

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#1968

On Thursday, August 7, 2014 7:24:06 AM UTC-5, Cecil Westerhof wrote:
> Op Thursday 7 Aug 2014 07:55 CEST schreef luser:
> 
> > Despite my efforts, we're still pretty low-volume. My list of topics
> 
> Well, I want to play again with postscript. I do not have to be afraid
> to post questions here then. :-D
> 

No, indeed. Your questions are great! Keep 'em coming.

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#1969

On Saturday, August 9, 2014 11:29:33 PM UTC-5, luser- -droog wrote:
> On Thursday, August 7, 2014 7:24:06 AM UTC-5, Cecil Westerhof wrote:
> 
> > Op Thursday 7 Aug 2014 07:55 CEST schreef luser:
> > 
> > > Despite my efforts, we're still pretty low-volume. My list of topics
> > 
> > Well, I want to play again with postscript. I do not have to be afraid
> > to post questions here then. :-D
> > 
> 
> No, indeed. Your questions are great! Keep 'em coming.

Dammit. Did I really misspell the subject
of this thread? N and R are nowhere near
each other on my qwerty keyboard.
I don't know what I can say for myself.
Is my subconscious telling me something?

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#1971

On the other hand, maybe the old one's fine as is.
There is this newer one,

   http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/PostScript_FAQ

which, as the link suggests, is an editable wiki.

And StackOverflow can also be used as a "share your
knowledge" platform, as I've done here

   http://stackoverflow.com/questions/15997536/how-do-you-keep-the-roll-operator-straight

http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2011/07/its-ok-to-ask-and-answer-your-own-questions/

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