If possible, an email location or mailserver should be included, since not all users have FTP capabilities, A list of sites, if any, that archive the group as well as how to become an archive site, Moderator conflict resolution methods, Moderator replacement policy. This posting should be made periodically to the group. Quite often it becomes necessary to have a Frequently Asked Questions posting. Readers drop in and out of newsgroups frequently, and may not be familiar with previous discussions. A FAQ posting can help reduce the number of duplicate questions submitted to the newsgroup.
Many moderated groups have a group of relevant FAQs posted, written by a number of authors.
It is perfectly acceptable to simply give an FAQ author permission to post or cross-post the FAQ into your newsgroup. Having these types of documents as a consistent part of the group will save you from answering the same questions again and again. The readership will be able to get the majority of the information about the group from the group itself. When people submit requests for information that has already been covered, it is easy to simply forward the appropriate informational posting to them, or send them a pointer to it. Recently there has been a lot of discussion about implicit and explicit copyrights on policy and FAQ postings.