Re: Is there anyone on this list?

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Elliotte Rusty Harold (elharo@shock.njit.edu)
Tue, 22 Apr 1997 15:42:01 -0400

>Not much action on this list. I joined this list to find out how one would
>go about taking over a FAQ that is (I think) posted by the FAQ server.
>Unfortunately, nobody seems to know who last was responsible for it, nor
>what the password for it is.

You don't. The FAQ is the property of the person or persons who wrote
it. "Taking it over" would be a servere copyright violation exposing you
to large liability, not to mention being unethical to boot.

>Anyone got any ideas on how to cancil a runaway FAQ??
>

There is precedent for cancelling a FAQ auto-posting when the maintainer
appears to have dropped off the face of the earth. As I recall Jonathan
Kamens did this to the comp.lang.java.programmer FAQ a few years ago.
However at the time, he said that if the maintainer restarted it, he would
not stop it again. The maintainers of the auto-poster and news.answers do
not want to get caught in arguments about FAQ contents.

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