Re: Supersedes and a new FaqTool

Todd Williams (todd@macsch.com)
Thu, 10 Mar 94 09:32:11 PST

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At 11:23am on Wed Mar 2 1994, Ove Ruben R Olsen <Ove.R.Olsen@ub.uib.no> said:
> Some time ago I asked on this list about what people put as supersedes.
> The conclusion on this seems to be that most people enters today's date/time,
> a short-form of the name of the FAQ and their own loginname (and of course
> their FQDN on the right-hand side).

Then most people are WRONG.

The Supersedes: header line should contain the message-id of a previously
posted article which is obsoleted by the current article. This is interpreted
by most news systems. Consult your netnews documentation. This info is
probably in the RFC for news article format, too.

Todd Williams UNIX Systems Supervisor todd@macsch.com (213) 259-4973
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