Technical Guitar FAQ and Digest Background

Disclaimer!

I make no representation that this information will be useful to you, or that it is technically correct. It is simply a compendium of net information that I have found useful.
This is real life - you are on your own. Read and think.

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• First, everything is constantly under construction...
• I am not affiliated with, and I make no representations regarding any commercial pages linked to this page.
• I keep several FAQs related to technical aspect of guitar playing. These are my responses to FAQs about which I think I have useful knowledge. These are the evolution of my standard responses to the newsgroup over the years.
• I have assembled digests of unedited useful FAQs and posts from the past, chronologically ordered, and properly attributed. Please note the following:
• If something of value was posted to the net, I informally assume that permission is granted to archive it here. If I am mistaken with respect to your posting, please inform me.
• I keep dates and names with these miscellaneous posts. Much of this info is older, before I knew I would be maintaining FAQs and digests. I worry that the date/author info has been inadvertently munged (but I don't think it has). My apologies if you do not get appropriately acknowledged, please let me know.
• When I started, I only kept posts what were interesting to me. Now, that I have www'd these digests, I try to keep technical posts that fit the theme of the digests. I only include new information; I rarely include inflamatory postings as their archival could only serve to embarass the author. 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. I can link to your www page, or I can include a new branch here properly attributed to you.
• 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. As such, I don't archive anything from the less official/recognized alt.guitar.