Apologies in advance. This isn't really the right place to bring this up, but I didn't want to open up discussion to the entire c.l.py without a little feedback first. I volunteer to take this off-list (maybe there's a more appropriate list already set up meta-sig?) and come back with a recommendation to the assembled masses here or elsewhere. Many newsgroups post FAQs on a regular basis. I wonder if it wouldn't be such a bad idea to try and figure out how to do that with the Python FAQ. A few issues come to mind: 1. Availability in plain text. Is it? I only every use the FAQ wizard any more, so I don't know. 2. How to keep it from percolating to the mailing list? I doubt people are going to want weekly or monthly mailings of the form "Python FAQ part 1/13" on a regular basis. I suspect the mail/news gateway could be trained to recognize this special message, perhaps if it was cross-posted to one other special newsgroup (misc.answers or whatever catches all the FAQs in the known universe). 3. Maybe a completely different form is needed for periodic posting - a Mini-FAQ - which answers the most egregious questions like "why whitespace indentation?" and "how do I run this thing I just downloaded?", then refers to the real FAQ URL for everything else. Comments? Skip Montanaro | http://www.mojam.com/ skip@mojam.com | http://www.musi-cal.com/ "Languages that change by catering to the tastes of non-users tend not to do so well." - Doug Landauer