[SpamCop-List] Re: Why Am I Blocked? FAQ

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"Pop" <nobody at devnull.spamcop.net> wrote in message
news:ctqqhg$j46$1 at news.spamcop.net...
> >
> Hope I'm not jumping the gun; please tell me if I am:  As a tech
> writer in my most recent past life, I feel qualified to make a
> couple of observations on format.
>
> Content = pretty good!   Fairly clear and concise.  Not hard to
> read/understand.

I'm not jumping on you Pop, this just lookd like a good
starting point here.  What is missing from all this mostly
appreciated input is that the "home" of this FAQ entry is
on the Forum.  This means HTML display, links glowing,
all that colorful stuff.  It had been developed over some
some time by input from a number of Forum users (and
who can forget Mike E.'s call to call the NNTP/HTTP
camps totally different nations?) ... Adter all of that,
Miss Betsy snagged a copy of that, did a lot of editing
so it would 'render' a bit better as a plain-text item, and
made an attempt to answer the call for a "post the FAQ"
in the newsgroup.....

The last batch of input is still in the process of being added
to the Forum entry (and I note that Miss Betsy didn't go
grab another copy of that and start all over again) .. so let
me say (and let me take the heat) ... there is a FAQ
development section in the Forum structure, set up
just for this purpose.  There are but just a handful of
folks frequenting both places ....

> But(t) <g>:
>    Altho I can see it'll make a little work due to overlaps, I
> think this page should be two pages:  It gets a little boring and
> dwindles a person's interest when they have to page thru "I'm an
> ISP", "I'm not an ISP", and, woops, wonder if I missed a heading?

And in all fairness again, Miss Betsy had made the same suggestion
in either an e-mail or PM to me a bit after the first time she posted
this thing into the spamcop.help froup.  See the above "still in
progress" remark <g>

> I think  it should look like:
> ------------------------------
>  Why Am I Blocked?
> Probable Causes if: <I AM an ISP>    <I USE an ISP>
> -----------------------------
> < x > above = link
> That's clumsy, but I think it makes the point I want to make.
>
> Like I said, tell me if I'm ahead of things here.  Not trying to
> be in the way.

Point taken, but please understand how what Miss Betsy
posted got to the present entity.  I really don't think
anyone responding to her has any real idea of how
much work went into just getting that acconplished.

> Online vetting; great idea.  Best of luck!

That was the way the www.spamcop.net FAQ once worked.