Re: I know you're tired of hearing this, but ... re FAQs

"Blammo" <[email protected]> wrote in message
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> On 30 Jun 2005 WazoO entered spamcop.help and left
> news:[email protected]:
>
> > Blammo's follow-ups, the years of continuing bitches
> > about the www.spamcop.net FAQ-o-matic thing ... trying to picture
> > this page as having those 'initial' answers for those first-time (ticked
> > off) visitors
>
> I don't have much trouble with the FAQ-O-Matic, but I think the priority's
> a little messed up; some info is buried, or out-dated, or nonexistent.

Yes, that's been a number of the complaints over the years.  Again, one
of the reasons that got me to do up the single-page access version.

> I mean, first, you need to know what Spamcop does, then how to get the
> original spam source, how to sign up, how to report and reporting rules,
> then what to do when things go wrong. Seems like "how to read headers"
> would be important as well. Signing up could be a higher priority, but
> signing up only to find out you can't report is pretty annoying. Perhaps
> "What you need before signing up" would take care of that.

Are you attempting to answer my actual query for input on attempting
to do this "portal" page, doing more complaining about the existing
www.spamcop.net FAQ, or suggesting that you or someone else is
going to try to write up something that takes all the existing data on
how to work-around various issues into an "all you need to do is ..."????
Recall tha this is one of the biggest headaches, everyone wants to
use their favorite tools, then bitch that the SpamCop parser isn't
compliant, vice the "all you need" requirement of simply needing
an RFC compliant agent (and server) ...????

> Of course Spamcop Mail would be a separate section, but similar, and the
> "What to do if you're blocked" would be a separate section.
> It is basically that way now, but needs improvement

Based on your "never been there" and that Miss Betsy hasn't tried
to meet the cyclic "someone ought to post a FAQ every day/week/
month" thing in quite a while ... have you ever looked at the (Forum)
FAQ or Miss Betsy's effort on the "Why am I Blocked?" FAQ
entry (developed in the Forum) ??? Did you note that this was in fact
the first 'extra' link I placed into the "site navigation" box?