Dear colleagues,

Some of you may remember that a while back I established a Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) area for members of this list, at

• http://faq.indology.info

At the time, the idea was to provide us all with an area where we could write without fear of our text being subverted by other editors without university-level academic acumen (as happens sometimes in Wikipedia).  In my mind, the FAQ would contain succinct essays by members of this forum on indological topics that come up frequently in the minds of the general public.

The initiative got bogged down, though, with the security issues.  Members had to apply for a password in order to gain access, and the whole thing was just too darn fiddly.

I have now lifted the password restriction.  Anyone may now write on the FAQ, and I hope I can encourage many of you to contribute a few words on any topic that you think could be interesting to the public, and on which you could give some authoritative words in a short compass.

By removing the password restriction, I have opened the FAQ up to potential abuse.  We'll all simply have to keep an eye on it, and hope things don't get out of hand.  If it goes bad, we'll have to deal with that in due course.

Please consider going over to http://faq.indology.info and contributing a few words on your favourite topic.  The topical structure that I put there is just a suggestion.  Feel completely free to add, change, delete, or rearrange.

Best,
Dominik

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Dr Dominik Wujastyk
INDOLOGY committee