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Phil Addison wrote:
I just edit the FAQ, and am not an expert in all topics.
If you can't find the answer in the FAQ, ask on (link to
google)uk.d-i-y.
Please only mail me if you find errors or have contributions for
the FAQ.
Now that *is* terse!
Well, the above have cut it to the bone, some even more so.
I want to retain a degree of friendliness, bearing in mind that those
that email me do so because they (a) have a real problem (b) have
never
heard of usenet and (c) need hand-holding if they are to reach us
here.
So perhaps a little less terse?

Start:

Thank you for your question and your interest in news:uk.d-i-y

Because I just edit the FAQ, and am not an expert in all topics, I
prefer not to answer individual questions. Asking your question on the
newsgroup allows others to contribute to and benefit from the
resulting
discussion.

You can read and post to news:uk.d-i-y using a newsreader such as
Mozilla/Thunderbird or Outlook Express. Check your ISP's tech support
webpages for information on how to connect to their news server (often
called a Usenet or NNTP server).
link to setting up a newsreader for typical ISP account.
AOL users should see link to AOL news tech support webpage

If your ISP doesn't provide a newsgroups service you can subscribe to
a
separate news server such as link to individual.net for a small fee,
or you can use a web-based service such as link to googlegroups.

If you can't find the answer in the FAQ, ask on uk.d-i-y.

Please only mail me if you find errors or have contributions for the
FAQ.

End

Jolly good, well done. Although as long as the original suggestion :-)

Owain, whilst I'm here, why do your postings always quote the entire
headers at the top of the post before anything else? Makes for an awful
lot of scrolling and no-one else's postings seem to do it. Are you
aware that it happens? ...

And.....just having hit the 'send' button, now I see that your messages
(using OE with Quotefix) somehow don't seem to follow up automatically
to uk.diy or to quote the message title. I have just had to cut and
paste both in. Is it just me, does anyone else find this?? What on
earth is going on?.....

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