2006/4/22, Sterling Christensen <<a href="mailto:sterling.christensen@gmail.com">sterling.christensen@gmail.com</a>>:<div><span class="gmail_quote"></span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
For Wine, stickies would be useful for questions that keep getting<br>asked very frequently. Asnwer it once then sticky it. That way others<br>thinking of asking the same question will see the stick instead for<br>weeks, months to come - until you decide there are too many stickies
<br>and unstick it.<br><br>Forums generally don't delete messages. Posting to a thread bumps the<br>thread to the top of the list. A sticky is a message that always stays<br>at the top, to keep it visible. Usually used for important topics such
<br>as "Posting rules - read this before posting.", but also for FAQs on<br>issues too temporary to be added to a real FAQ page.<br></blockquote></div><br><br>You raise the idea of a FAQ here. I'd simply like to point that a FAQ can be maintained - and needs to be maintained - regarless of the format you choose (list or forum, stickies or not). FAQs are not built instantly out of stickies. I personnally prefer a well written FAQ to stickies (some newsgroups have awesome FAQs, ex
comp.c.lang @ <a href="http://c-faq.com/">http://c-faq.com/</a>).<br><br>Just sharing my opinion :-)<br>