I actively maintain a FAQ that is auto-posted by MIT to all NNTP servers on the Internet. I have been meaning to relate this story from last year.

Last summer I had been meaning to update FAQs to my newsgroup, and it had been such a long time since my last update, that I had forgotten the mailing addresses and commands to the FAQ server. Well, I could ask the mailing list I was on. Trouble was, they had disbanded without a trace, leaving me with a feeling of dull despair about how futile this was. There was a FAQ-Maintainer’s list of commands found under Google, but it was last updated 10 years ago.

It took a long-distance call to Computing Services at MIT to discover, after being put on hold for a half hour and passed over to several administrators, that there was in fact a new FAQ-maintainers mailing list with a new list address. I subscribed to the list, played the dumb newbie once more by asking questions about where to get the list of commands, then more questions after my first posting attempt failed.

Computers! Labour-saving device my &@#!