Auxiliary header for HTML (was "Re: The FAQ system approaches obsolescence. What do we do now?")

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Joe Sewell (jsewell@iu.net)
Fri, 9 Dec 1994 10:43:02 +0000

At 12:40 PM 12/9/94 +1000, Mr Rhys Weatherley wrote:
>To talk tech rather than generalities, maybe we can extend the auxillary
>header of FAQ's. For example, to use the UUCP internals FAQ again (sorry
>for picking on you Ian if you're watching :-) ):
>
> Archive-name: uucp-internals
> Version: $Revision: 1.26 $
> Last-modified: $Date: 1994/10/26 02:39:07 $
> Longer-Version-At: <URL:http://airs.com/uucp-internals-long.html>
> Longer-Version-At: <URL:ftp://airs.com/pub/uucp-internals-long.txt>
>
>The normal FAQ posting would be a shorter summary, probably including a
>natural language description of "where to get the full thing" for those
>without smart newsreaders. Smart newsreaders could detect the
>"Longer-Version-At" field and fire off some kind of request for the rest
>if the user wants it. Maybe even through a ftpmail or httpmail gateway for
>those without IP links.

I like the idea. Actually, having a "Longer-Version-At" might be good as
well as an "HTTP-Version-At" ... not all HTTP versions are necessarily
longer versions. :) Or the "See-Also" or "More-Info" ideas another list
subscriber mentioned.

Now THIS is an idea I can get excited about.

Joe

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