[Al Gilman <asgilman@access.digex.net>] Re: FAQ Buttons on Newsreaders (was FAQ sites on the web?)

[Steven L Baur <steve@miranova.com>]

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This sounds like a good idea.  Could it be added to the Red Gnus TODO
list?

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From: Al Gilman <asgilman@access.digex.net>
To: fburke@ccnet.com (Fred Burke)
Cc: bunda002@gold.tc.umn.edu, faq-maintainers@consensus.com
Subject: Re: FAQ Buttons on Newsreaders (was FAQ sites on the web?)
Date: Wed, 24 Jul 1996 08:15:51 -0400 (EDT)
Message-ID: <199607241215.IAA08016@access2.digex.net>

  From: Fred Burke <fburke@ccnet.com>
  
  > Dragomir R. Radev wrote:
  > > 
  >> Shouldn't Netscape and other web browsers that supply usenet access have a
  >> default button for the FAQ for each newsgroup?
  > 
  > Prodigy's newsreader has had that from the very beginning. That is a
  > very newby-friendly feature, but it only works if a particular newsgroup
  > has an FAQ with a title or header that unerringly matches it to the
  > newsgroup. NONE of the newsgroups I've frequented most often in the past
  > two years have one. 
  
Extracting entries in the LoPP that post to the current newsgroup would
seem to be a method that would catch more FAQs than title matching.

One way to help this idea catch on would be for somebody to cut a Gnus
patch that does this and start circulating it.

Al Gilman