[HP4GU-FAQ] The gleam in the FAQs (Crosspost Mod & FAQ groups)

[Amy Z]

I'm just forwarding this to Neil, whom I suspect is not keeping up with the 
FAQ list.  Neil, it has a suggestion re: the VFAQ file.

Amy


>From: "Aberforth's Goat" <Aberforths_Goat at Yahoo.com>
>Reply-To: HP4GU-FAQ at yahoogroups.com
>To: <HPfGU-Mod at yahoogroups.com>, <HP4GU-FAQ at yahoogroups.com>
>Subject: [HP4GU-FAQ] The gleam in the FAQs (Crosspost Mod & FAQ groups)
>Date: Tue, 27 Nov 2001 11:40:26 +0100
>
>Penny enthused,
>
> > Mike, you owe me a new keyboard!  Let's all take the Goat's approach &
> > come up with hilarious responses to all the people who failed to read
> > the VFAQ.  I love it, love it, love it!  <huge grin>
>
><grins back>
>
>But actually, I'm feeling just a little bad about making fun of Sharon's
>gleam
>question, for the simple reason that it'd take one hell of newbie to figure
>out what we've already said about it. (Besides: I'd hate for the whole mod
>list to have to buy Penny two or three new keyboards per week ... )
>
>Our FAQ (or Pensieve or whatever) doesn't presently say much about the
>gleam. I assume that CMC's Dumbledore FAQ will have several hundred pages
>dedicated to the question, but since it's not up yet, there are only a few
>cursory thoughts in Penny's mysteries FAQ.
>
>Yes, the VFAQ, mentions the gleam and suggests that "you can read various
>opinions on this in the group archives, particularly around the time GoF 
>was
>released." Which is all very well - but anyone who has ever researched a 
>FAQ
>knows that actually *finding* anything in the !#$% message section fulfills
>most of the prerequisites to beatification.
>
>* * * * * * * *
>
>I'm not sure what we can do about this, however. Does anyone know how CMC's
>doing on his FAQ? I thought he only needed to retool his character sketch.
>Should he be encouraged to have a Very Bad Conscience? (BTW, Thanks to Mr.
>Walton for getting me back to A.A. Milne ... )
>
>And for now, how about linking the appropriate VFAQ line to Penny's Mystery
>FAQ? In faqt, howabout adding the VFAQ to the *FAQ* web so that VFAQ 
>readers
>will be exposed directly to the FAQs themselves - instead of being routed
>into an obscure corner of the file section?
>
>However, doing this would require editing the FAQ web, and I'm not sure how
>that is done, nor who (besides Steve) is able to do it. Heidi and I both
>have pages in the files section that are ready to go online. Should we
>recruit another html techie from the main list to help Steve and Paul 
>Kippes
>carry the load?
>
>(I'd be willing to try, but my html "skills," laughable though they are,
>probably aren't the kind of humor the group needs ... )
>
>Baaaaaa!
>
>Aberforth's Goat (a.k.a. Mike Gray)
>_______________________
>
>"Of course, I'm not entirely sure he can read, so that may not have been
>bravery...."
>
>


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