Re: FAQ on CD-ROM.

Kent Landfield (Kent_Landfield@sterling.com)
Thu, 15 Dec 94 10:03:01 CST

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# Right. At least let me put in a bit that says 'Since you get this by CD-ROM it's
# probably not the latest version. Please contact me if you wan't a copy of the
# latest version of this FAQ.' Or something like that.
>
> Actually, this should in _all_ versions. People do get FAQs from FTP
> sites, and some of them are quite out of date.

This was discussed in the "last" go-round of CD-ROM discussions. Here
is what I do for the moderated newsgroup archive location FAQ.

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Archive-name: usenet/mod-archives
Last-modified: 12/12/94
Posting-Frequency: monthly
Version: 1.19

This article contains the location of archives for moderated
Usenet newsgroups. If you wish to get the latest version of
this file, send an email message to

send-mod-archives@ftp.sterling.com

and it will be mailed to you. Please use a domain based address
if possible. This file is also available via WWW and FTP from

ftp://ftp.sterling.com/moderators/Archives.html
or
ftp://ftp.sterling.com/moderators/Archives.txt

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This gives anyone the ability to retrieve the most current copy via Email,
FTP and WWW. If they choose to look at an out-of-date copy after that,
due to convenience or whatever, it's their decision.

But really, for most of you, your data does not change all that much to
make your information _totally_ worthless. My 2 cents is that too many
people here are being extremely petty and if you wish to be a part of the
solution that FAQs are trying to be then you should freely allow USENET
distribution and all its related distribution mechanisms. CD-ROM can be
just another way to get articles to the user.

And if you wish to bash CD-ROM vendors, you really should be targeting
someone other than Walnut Creek. They sent me every free CD I ever asked
for. And I use them quite often. Only one other CD-ROM vendor has
followed through on their offer to send me a free CD and that was a
Japanese Sun User Group.

-Kent+

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