This email contains both news and a survey at the end.  PLEASE respond to 
the survey.

I have further refined the look of the HTML version of the FAQ, and it is 
available at:

http://www.backupcentral.com/netbackup-faq.html

I have done a lot of work on it to make it easier to read, including 
actually formatting the text and the paragraphs so they display better in 
HTML, and splitting the faq up into 13 separate files that are accessible 
from the main table of contents (the URL above).

I personally think an HTML version of the FAQ is much more useful than a 
really huge email to the mailing list.  Since it's indexed by my site, you 
can even do complex searches for things in the FAQ at 
http://www.backupcentral.com/search.html .  As the FAQ gets bigger and more 
complex, this is going to be even more important.

The problem is that it is very difficult to maintain a readable HTML and 
TXT version of the FAQ.  I can generate a mailable TXT from my HTML pretty 
easily, but it sure isn't pretty.  Here is the survey:

1. Do you like the new HTML format at 
http://www.backupcentral.com/netbackup-faq.html ?

2. If I could maintain only the searchable HTML or emailable TXT version, 
which would you prefer?

3. If I could automate making a text version from the HTML version, how 
important is it that it be nicely formatted?

4. If I am able to automate sending out a text version, should I send it to 
the whole list once a month, or should we create a separate mailing list 
just for that?   (It's a lot of wasted bandwidth for a lot of people.)

Thank you very much for your help.

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W. Curtis Preston, Principal Consultant at Collective Technologies
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