Re: "get FAQ" newsreader command

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>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.

All FAQs posted to news.answers already contain several identifiers; the
archive name and their Message-IDs.

All that would be needed is a mechanism for indexing the articles;
after all, they already are stored on very many newsservers.

Some people here at Karlsruhe are working on this approach, from
what I hear. I'll keep you posted on developments.

--
Thomas Koenig, ig25@rz.uni-karlsruhe.de, ig25@dkauni2.bitnet,
The joy of engineering is to find a straight line on a double
logarithmic diagram.

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