[Note: I've cross-posted this to news.groups.  Everyone in this thread
should be doing the same.  Thanks!]

jliddle@rs6000.cmp.ilstu.edu (Jean Liddle) writes in comp.os.linux:
quoted text
>In article <1993May28.103503.7739@oski.toppoint.de> olaf@oski.toppoint.de (Olaf
>Schlueter) writes:
>>Dispite the several suggestions for a new c.o.l hierarchy, I recommend
>>to create just one new c.o.l group, doesn't matter, what named,
>>but essentially should be MODERATED. Its purpose should be to
>>publish SOLUTIONS: [...]
>>this or that in a more efficient way, and so on. Articles should be
>>written in a more or less elaborated manner (less postings, more volume)
>>and should be revised by the moderator.
>I like the idea of a moderated comp.os.linux.solutions group, as an
>addition to a limited heiarchy.  [...]

Where this has been used before, they call it "*.answers".

Typically an answers-type newsgroup in various UseNet hierarchies is moderated.
The FAQs would be cross-posted there but have their primary posting location 
elsewhere in the same hierarchy, even if it's in the general-discussion group.
The moderator can make other policies about what is appropriate to post but
they will usually have to be periodic postings since the same questions keep
coming up again and again and again...

One problem - if you want to propose a moderated newsgroup, you'd better find
a volunteer to be the moderator before you take the proposal much further.
(I'm not going to volunteer - I already maintain 2 FAQs over in rec.radio.*
as my contribution to UseNet.)
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Ian Kluft  KD6EUI PP-ASEL         Amdahl Corporation, Open Systems Development
ikluft@uts.amdahl.com                                          Santa Clara, CA
[disclaimer: any opinions expressed are mine only... not those of my employer]