Re: 3.5 A9M0106 use

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spec@vax2.concordia.ca (Mitchell Spector) wrote:

>>A new FAQ keeper has been registered with news.announce.
>>
>>The new FAQs have just been posted and showed up on AOL's
>>news server.  Look for them.
>
>    Just the same, anyone looking for the old official FAQ's (written
>by Nathan Mates) can still find them at: http://www.apple2.org/faq

Or http://www.dejanews.com/ DejaNews via a search for
posts using a search of comp.sys.apple2, the word FAQ,
and Nathan's email address.

>    I still recommend those to new and old users as they're much more
>accurate and error-free, in addition to being better organized and
>straight forward. I'm not trying to discredit Rubywand's FAQ's, but
>as they currently stand (made up mostly of post clippings from this
>group) they're better suited as supplimentary reading material than
>an outright replacement to Nathan's FAQ(s). That's just my opinion.

I disagree.  Rubywand's FAQ (now the official FAQ as far as
usenet's news.answers is concerned) is overall more accurate.
So what if it is made up of clippings from us.  We give good
answers.  If something is wrong Mitch, then speak up and
Rubywand corrects it.  I just caught some problems with the
info on the Laser in the FAQ and Rubywand acted to correct
the problem right away.  By the way, that entry existed
from the pre-Nathan FAQ, so it existed in Nathan's as well
as Rubywand's FAQ.  Now that it is fixed, this is one more area
where Rubywand's FAQ is more accurate.

And how about the accelerator FAQ?  Notice that Tony
isn't using Nathan's accelerator FAQ anymore?  That's
because Nathan's accelerator info is out of date and dead
wrong.  As time goes by, more and more of Nathan's FAQ
will be inaccurate.  Best to use Rubywand's.

If you think a FAQ can't be made of clippings from usenet,
check out the SCSI FAQ.  That FAQ keeper did the same
thing.  There is nothing wrong with the practice.