Re: How to deal with people archiving your FAQ?

Daniel Boughton (dan_boughton@MENTORG.COM)
Tue, 16 Aug 1994 12:10:07 -0700

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>Hi all;
>
>I have a question. I maintain various FAQs for rec.arts.bodyart.
>I have the notice written on the FAQ regarding distribution (it
>already addresses selling FAQ for profit, etc.), but I do not
>have anything written specifically for people who mirror
>rtfm.mit.edu.
>
>I didn't ever have a problem with it until I found something new
>today. There's a fellow who's decided to do his own html
>document at his site with a bunch of stuff, including all the
>FAQs from r.a.b. The problem is that these are versions I posted
>back in May--and I have had revisions since then.

[I'm the one that maintains the HTML archive of news.answers at OSU]

Just so you'll know, I do include hand-produced html versions of
FAQs in favor of my own auto-produced versions, but ONLY at the
request of the maintainer, and ONLY with the assurance that it will
be kept up to date.

I've already had this come up a couple of times. A couple of people
have converted FAQs to html, just because they thought it would be
cool, and they didn't sound very reliable to me. I told them to
talk to the original maintainer. If it is ok with them (the maintainer),
it's ok with me.

Just as a side note about my copies of the FAQs being up to date, the
software runs nightly, so things should be very up to date in theory.
(Of course, in THEORY communism works. In theory.) But the software
doesn't always work right, and in particular, may fail to notice that
an archive changed names (the only way it can notice is when a file turns
into a directory). And I certainly don't have time to browse the entire
FAQ set every day, in fact, just the daily changes would be too much
to read. I rely on the reading public to let me know of such problems.

tom

http://www.cis.ohio-state.edu/hypertext/faq/usenet/top.html

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