In article <2qov46$7fk@tinman.dev.prodigy.com>,
Ed Ravin <elr@elephant.dev.prodigy.com> wrote:
>I'd like to propose such a method -- a "retrieve FAQ for this newsgroup"
>command in the newsreader.
How about this:
Have a DNS domain (say, oh, "faqs.services.net", to use my upcoming
own one)
For the newsgroup "foo.bar.baz", make a DNS TXT query for
baz.bar.foo.faqs.services.net, which will return a list of URL(s)
for the FAQ(s) of the group "foo.bar.baz". This would be
either of the format "news:messageid" (without angle-brackets)
If could get updates of Tom Fine's FAQ database this would be trivial,
and could also include the "real" URL to the HTML version
if there is one.
The best solution is to have all FAQ's posted with a header such as
"FAQ-URL:" such that anyone anywhere can maintain a database
even though they are not IP-connected. (where the URL in the
database would be the content of the FAQ-URL header if they
are IP-connected or, "news:messageid" if they are not)
--Dave
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