Re: Supersedes and a new FaqTool

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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.

Relax, Todd.

What Ruben was saying, although he was a bit unclear about it, was
that the information he listed is what people generally put in the
*Message IDs* of their messages. In other words, when he said "what
people put as supersedes," he meant, "what information people use to
compose their Message IDs."

Jonathan Kamens | OpenVision Technologies, Inc. | jik@security.ov.com

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