Re: How many versions...

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Christopher Allen (consensus@netcom.com)
Wed, 26 Jan 1994 21:19:55 -0800

At 11:33 PM 1/26/94 -0500, David Barr wrote:
> With the explosion of HTML in FAQ's, I propose a new auxiliary
>header: "URL:" . It would contain a Web URL pointer to where you can
>get the HTML source.
> Perhaps rtfm.mit.edu could use this header to maintain a database
>of the HTML FAQ's? Or perhaps even mirror them by scanning news.answers
>and scanning the FAQs for the URL: header?
> At least, it would be nice to have an HTML master page built
>automatically and made available for people to browse and search
>FAQ's. It would make for a more distributed FAQ archive.

I like the concept, but I would recommend not calling that header URL,
X-URL or any such notation as URL is a proposed RFC for "Universal Resource
Locator".

If an URL or an X-URL header was used it would be the original location of
THIS document. It would help take place of the text at top of most FAQs
mentioning how to get to rtfm, instead the X-URL would say
ftp://rtfm.mit.edu/somefaq.txt.

For your idea, the header should be something like HTML or X-HTML:
http://someu.edu/somefaq.html

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