  FAQs [was: RE: st: RE: RE: Calling a Do-file]  From   "Nick
Cox" <> To   <> Date   Thu, 23 Oct 2008 19:16:05 +0100  I am not
sure that this is correct. But it raises a question about what
people think the role of the FAQs is. I often see comments on
this made in passing on the list. They frequently puzzle me
because my perception of what the FAQs are intended to do is
often quite different from what people seem to be implying.
Therefore, although this is a response to Sergiy's post, it is
not directed to him personally.   The issue is starkest when
people say something like "I searched the FAQs and couldn't find
anything on this" and that appears to have been their prior
search!  Or when people write personally and say "I can't find
an FAQ on this" they really have the wrong end of the stick.
(They are often right, but that is not the main point.)   I mean
here the Stata website FAQs. (There are several other sites
offering Stata FAQs but -- on this occasion it is fair to single
out just one other -- the