Bill, Phil, and all, I agree- a great idea-. And why don't we distribute it on joining the list and have a weekly post reminding people that it is available. I definately should address the issue of volume and how to manage it. Charlie Phil Tompkins wrote: > Bill Harrington wrote: > > > Now that we're on the net which is a GOOD thing in most ways, > > shouldn't we have an FAQ for the newbies? (FAQ=frequently asked > > questions). > > Good idea. There are questions that come up repeatedly. Could > producing this be a list member effort? We have some excellent > writers here. I can see it happening somewhat as follows: we choose > a person to serve as coordinator (hm - how do we accomplish this > initial step?), and perhaps someone else as editor. We assemble a > list of questions based on topics that we recall as recurring. > Volunteers write answers, one person per question. The editor > collates the whole thing. The group reviews the result. The editor > incorporates revisions. Someone volunteers to translate it into a web > page, and loads it to a web server (which one?), perhaps as an > extension of the PD Alliance pages with links to the page with the > listserv messages. Grand announcement and celebration. Thereafter, > updates are entered as required. Is this feasible? > > Phil Tompkins > Hoboken NJ > age 61/dx 1990 -- ****************************************************************************************** Charles T. Meyer, M.D. Middleton (Madison), Wisconsin [log in to unmask] ******************************************************************************************