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as posted in the spamcop newsgroup .. sure, it could have been polished up, straightened out but .. I'm not in the mood .. for those htat give a hoot but can't figure out NNTP .... the sub-thread starts at http://news.spamcop.net/pipermail/spamcop-...ead.html#105747

From: "WazoO"

Newsgroups: spamcop

Subject: Re: Dubious FAQ entry 166.html

Date: Fri, 28 Oct 2005 00:30:32 -0500

Message-ID: <djsd1o$gjv$1[at]news.spamcop.net>

"Frank Ellermann"  wrote in message

news:43606545.1E96[at]xyzzy.claranet.de...

> Mike Easter wrote:

>

> > To me, the OE reader sees it bolded for OE in 119 and sees it

> > bolded again [ostensibly for the OE reader of 119] in 166.

>

> > You have a legitimate argument about 'wrong' if you arrive at

> > 166 from some other route

>

> I arrived at both 119 and 166 directly from your article... ;-)

>

> But when I saw that the scri_pt tries to implement "proprietary

> terminology" forward-as-attachment resulting in garbage all my

> flame throwers switched to full auto mode.

I can't help but be bowled over at the amount of effort expended

to bitch about the "official" FAQ, explain why it sucks, citing

facts and figures on things that it should say, yet ...... where

exactly is the "recommended change" ????

I ask this while looking at the contents of my Sent folder,

showing something like 50-60 e-mails just in the last two

weeks to Don/Deputies/JT that have the acronym FAQ

in the Subject Line:  Out of that, perhaps a dozen (I might

even be stretching that) have been touched.

Here my anger starts showing ... a number of responses

have came back with the www.spamcop.net FAQ is "the"

OFFICIAL FAQ, so the fact that I'm having a hard time

moving, changing, fixing, updating, adding content and data

to something that more closely relates to reality, fills in the

gaps, etc., etc., etc. is "my" problem. And yet, here's another

thread, bitching about content, missing/bad details, on and on ...

The obvious point ... compare the size of the OFFICIAL FAQ

to the Forum version of the SpamCop FAQ .... .and more

stuff gets added at least weekly it seems.to the Forum version ...

yet here "we" set, raising the same complaints that were raised

5 years ago about the same FAQ entries ....

Trying to convert all this stuff to the KnowledgeBase view has

pretty much come to a halt.  I don't want to waste my time

putting up data I know is wrong, should be fixed, knowing that

it needs editing,, but .... changes aren't happening.  I asked

for help on building a whole new FAQ entry on the MailHost

Configuration Process ... I was advised that there were "no FAQ

type answers" ... I'm having a hard time trying to collate all the

Frequently Asked Questions to build the framework, and

stuck with a lot of no answers beyond "e-mail Ellen" ... even

after I'd started whacking a FAQ together, provided the link to

show that I wasn't asking for the internal MailHost configuration

stuff, just trying to answer all the "how to do it" problem situations,

get the comment "what do you want me to comment on?" ....

I'm not happy, to say the least.

My point right now is that there is an opportunity that's been offered

to put all this effort into building a FAQ that has the data available,

it's been available for quite a while.  The KnowledgeBase version is

just the latest attack on the situation.  Yet, I can't get over the fact

that this seems to be yet another lost cause.  Hell, even the alternative

side doesn't seem to be an action item ... where's the call for all

the data developed in the UNOFFICIAL versions of the SpamCop

FAQ to get added to the OFFICIAL FAQ? ....

I just don't fathom some of the craziness involved with this whole

situation ... Concurrence is seen that some Official FAQ data sucks ...

submit the recommended changes ...

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as posted in the spamcop newsgroup .. sure, it could have been polished up, straightened out but .. I'm not in the mood ..  for those htat give a hoot but can't figure out NNTP .... the sub-thread starts at http://news.spamcop.net/pipermail/spamcop-...ead.html#105747

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wow, "Whack a FAQ"....

How's that go again?

Hey, *I* think you're doing a good job...

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