Frequently asked questions in these groups deserve a monthly posting

[Felix Lee]

"Frequently asked questions" monthly postings are an attempt to deal
with Usenet's lack of history.  If news never expired, then there
wouldn't be this problem.  You'd have the different problem of trying
to find things in the terabytes of data.

I don't find repeatedly asked questions terrible.  Things change fast
enough that many answers become different.  What's worse is the dozens
of responses with duplicated, incorrect, or partially correct answers.
This is the moderation problem.

Thinking of better, faster, more-powerful-than-a-locomotive moderation,
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Felix Lee	flee at shire.cs.psu.edu	*!psuvax1!shire!flee