taylor@mentor.cc.purdue.edu (Dave Taylor) writes:
> 2. Let's create a new command 'faq' that takes the name of a
> Usenet group as its single argument and obtains that doc from
> whatever site it needs to check.
Not a bad idea. It should index on the Keywords: entries as well as
the group names. But heck, the rtfm WAIS server already indexes on the
entire text of the FAQs. Again, the real problem is not the software,
it is (a) getting into the hands of *everybody* and (b) getting them
to use it.
Two points:
1) The "faq" command already exists -- see the "getfaq" package in
volume 41 of comp.sources.misc.
2) The rtfm WAIS server is down and has been down for a couple of
months, because the machine that is rtfm.mit.edu was being overwhelmed
by the services running on it and WAIS was the biggest cuplrit
(because it's a big memory hog while searching and requires a separate
process for each client). However, it looks like rtfm will soon be
replaced with an SS10 or SS20 more capable of handling the load being
placed on it, in which case the WAIS server will be reenabled.
jik
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