When I started, I only kept posts what were interesting to me. Fortunately for the internet community, there is a direct and distinct correlation between valuable information and the quality of presentation in all postings. This simplifies things. Some FAQs are created and maintained by other people and the most recent version I have seen is included here for your convenience. I can not guarantee that this is the absolute latest version.
Most information is in textual ascii form.
This enables users with minimal knowledge and configurations to easily get the data. I do not participate in the electric bass newsgroups, though much of this info might be of use to electric bass players. If you are active in the bass newsgroups and have compiled similar faqs and digests that you would like share, let me know. Due to the amazing amount of content-free traffic, I decided in Summer 1995 to only read rec.music.makers.guitar and stop reading alt.guitar.