Re: How often to post?

Tom Lane (tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us)
Wed, 15 Jun 1994 10:29:49 -0400

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> Are there significant advantages to posting more often?
> Does it cut down on the number of requests posted?

I post my FAQ on a two-week cycle. I observe that the number of requests
that would be answered by the FAQ drops off after I post, and then builds
up again after a few days.

I interpret this to mean that many sites do not honor Expires: properly,
or else that the questioners are too clueless even to look back for a FAQ.
Probably some of both :-(.

Another person who posts a FAQ into many of the same newsgroups as I do
uses the infrequent-FAQ-with-frequent-pointer method. I haven't seen any
evidence that it helps. I suspect a lot of newbies are uncomfortable with
FTP or the other tools that might be used to fetch a FAQ, so they just
post their question instead. Perhaps the spread of WWW will improve
matters.

regards, tom lane

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