From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/7333 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Steven L Baur Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: [Al Gilman ] Re: FAQ Buttons on Newsreaders (was FAQ sites on the web?) Date: 24 Jul 1996 11:15:32 -0700 Sender: steve@miranova.com Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 (generated by tm-edit 7.72) Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="Multipart_Wed_Jul_24_11:15:32_1996-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035147660 6852 80.91.224.250 (20 Oct 2002 21:01:00 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 20 Oct 2002 21:01:00 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Al Gilman Return-Path: ding-request@ifi.uio.no Original-Received: from ifi.uio.no (ifi.uio.no [129.240.64.2]) by deanna.miranova.com (8.7.5/8.6.9) with SMTP id LAA02375 for ; Wed, 24 Jul 1996 11:33:55 -0700 Original-Received: from deanna.miranova.com (steve@deanna.miranova.com [206.190.83.1]) by ifi.uio.no with ESMTP (8.6.11/ifi2.4) id for ; Wed, 24 Jul 1996 20:17:32 +0200 Original-Received: (from steve@localhost) by deanna.miranova.com (8.7.5/8.6.9) id LAA02226; Wed, 24 Jul 1996 11:15:33 -0700 Original-To: ding@ifi.uio.no X-Url: http://www.miranova.com/%7Esteve/ Mail-Copies-To: never X-Face: #!T9!#9s-3o8)*uHlX{Ug[xW7E7Wr!*L46-OxqMu\xz23v|R9q}lH?cRS{rCNe^'[`^sr5" f8*@r4ipO6Jl!:Ccqp:9I OSS'2{-)-4wBnVeg0S\O4Al@)uC[pD|+ Original-Lines: 48 X-Mailer: Gnus v5.2.37/XEmacs 19.14 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:7333 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:7333 --Multipart_Wed_Jul_24_11:15:32_1996-1 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII This sounds like a good idea. Could it be added to the Red Gnus TODO list? -- steve@miranova.com baur Unsolicited commercial e-mail will be proofread for $250/hour. Andrea Seastrand: For your vote on the Telecom bill, I will vote for anyone except you in November. --Multipart_Wed_Jul_24_11:15:32_1996-1 Content-Type: message/rfc822 From: Al Gilman Message-Id: <199607241215.IAA08016@access2.digex.net> Subject: Re: FAQ Buttons on Newsreaders (was FAQ sites on the web?) To: fburke@ccnet.com (Fred Burke) Date: Wed, 24 Jul 1996 08:15:51 -0400 (EDT) Cc: bunda002@gold.tc.umn.edu, faq-maintainers@consensus.com From: Fred Burke > 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 --Multipart_Wed_Jul_24_11:15:32_1996-1--