Re: FAQ interface to newsreaders

David Barr (barr@pop.psu.edu)
Wed, 18 May 1994 22:28:59 -0400

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In message <m0q3vbe-000039C@ferret.ocunix.on.ca>, Chris Lewis writes:
>Bengt Larsson has implemented
>something I suggested long ago about an auxiliary command
>invokeable from a newsreader to display FAQs. It was published a
>little ways back in one of the sources groups, but I do not
>remember the name of it.

I don't know what Bengt's mechanism is, but I too have implemented
such a beast. It scans a group, checking for articles crossposted
to news.answers (or any other groups, say a local "*.answers" group).
In addition, it scans for the "Article-Names:" header, as defined
in the son-of-rfc1036 for tagging of periodic postings. See:

ftp://ftp.pop.psu.edu/pub/src/news/listfaq.tar.Z

Rather than trying to re-invent the wheel by keeping a 'FAQ database',
I use the existing article database: NOV. (via XHDR). Just add
"Xref:full" and "Article-Names:full" to your overview.fmt. (not
even necessary, but will be rather slow otherwise)

Unfortunately, this program uses NNTP only, but the theory is sound.

--Dave

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