What is this newsgroup about? What posts belong here?

comp.infosystems.www.authoring.cgi is a forum for the discussion of CGI scripts. CGI scripts are programs which are installed on web servers in order to generate a dynamic response to a request for a document, instead of serving up a canned HTML file. If your question relates directly to CGI, and is not covered in this FAQ, it belongs in this newsgroup.

If not, consider this list of newsgroups in the comp.infosystems.www hierarchy and check out the most appropriate group. If possible, use the most specific group that relates to your topic, rather than a .misc group.

This posting is only an excerpt from the complete WWW FAQ. See the next section for information on accessing the complete FAQ once you have web access.

World Wide Web FAQ