1. What is <comp.infosystems.www.authoring.stylesheets> ?

This is an unmoderated news group which passed its vote for creation by 166:19 as reported in news.announce.newgroups on 20 Mar 1997.

The charter of this news group, as culled from the vote result announcement, states the following:

This unmoderated news group is intended for the discussion of Web style sheets. Style sheets can make an author's life much easier. With style sheets, one only needs to specify presentational preferences once, and the style can be applied to an entire site. Not only that, but style sheets also reduce download time when one file contains all the style information.

2. What kinds of posts are acceptable in this news group ?

Topics for this news group include:

• How to achieve a particular effect with style sheets,
• The relative advantages of different style sheet languages,
• Specifications versus implementations,
• Bugs and limitations in implementations, and
• Questions on XSL related subjects.

3. What kinds of posts may be acceptable in this news group ?

Articles on related subjects (e.g. HTML mark-up, Scripting languages, etc) that may be required for discussion of a specific CSS problem.

On general terms:

• questions on HTML mark-up should be posted in
  <comp.infosystems.www.authoring.html>
• questions on XML mark-up should be posted in
  <comp.text.xml>
• questions on DSSSL may be posted in
  <comp.text.sgml>
• but the most correct forum might be the DSSSL mailing list at
  http://www.mulberrytech.com/dsssl/dssslist/
• questions on scripting languages (e.g. Javascript, Jscript etc) should be posted in
  <comp.lang.javascript>

Some examples of inappropriate posts include:

• Chain letters, including "Make Money Fast" articles
• Known hoaxes (like the "Good Times Virus")
• Announcements of non-relevant Web pages and services
• Personal introductions or requests for e-mail
• Off topic questions or responses
• Test articles
• Articles cross-posted to several news groups
• Articles posted as separate copies to many groups ("spam")
• Articles with significantly more quoted than new content
• Articles offering items for sale and commercial advertisements
• Articles which aren't primarily text in a standard alphabet
  (e.g. binaries, pictures, Rot13, etc.)

Available info on the subject of Cascading Style Sheets is too extensive to be written in a posted document like this. It is suggested that you research your technical questions on the use of CSS in one of the following places on the World Wide Web.

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This FAQ was last updated 1999/10/03 copyright 1998, 1999
Jan Roland Eriksson