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Re: Patch for old FAQ links



  In message <Pine.LNX.4.30.0012240038390.994-100000@kern.srcf.societies.cam.ac
.uk>you write:
  > On Sun, 24 Dec 2000, Gerald Pfeifer wrote:
  > 
  > > I am really unhappy with F-O-M and the way we are (mis)handling FAQs.
  > >
  > > Originally, when the F-O-M was introduced, the "deal" was to use this
  > > for day to day questions and move important FAQs into the appropriate
  > > documentation. Unfortunately, and I bit as I had expected, this has
  > > not happened.
  > 
  > Is there any sign that the FOM has been of any use - that any users have
  > contributed useful information to it (rather than simply dumping a badly
  > phrased question, or an empty item, at a random point in the FOM, as if in
  > hope for an answer) - justifying the loss of ability for people with CVS
  > write access to do general reorganisation, cleanup, etc., or for anyone to
  > submit patches to do the same, where this goes beyond what a generic FOM
  > account allows?
If the world at large isn't contributing anything useful, then it seems to
me like FOM isn't worth the maintenance burden and we should go back to a
static web page like we had before.

I haven't looked at it closely, so I'll leave that decision to y'all.

jeff


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