Re: Brush up those FAQ's ...

David Barr (barr@pop.psu.edu)
Sun, 09 Oct 1994 17:56:02 -0400

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In message <199410091705.AA20142@elephant.dev.prodigy.com>, Ed Ravin writes:
>Over the next few weeks, Prodigy's two million or so members will begin
>to access the Usenet.

Thanks for the warning. :-)

>As part of our effort to minimize the minimum
>impact this infusion of new blood will have on the rest of Usenet, our
>newsreader sports a "Get FAQ" button which will attempt to fetch an FAQ
>file for the current newsgroup. It works by looking in news.answers
>for any articles cross-posted to the current newsgroup, then displaying
>a menu of those articles.

Great idea (I wish other newsreaders will pick up on this). One
more thing that will be standardized in the coming months/years
(or whenever son-of-1036 is born) is to use "Article-Names:" in
the header to define the article as a FAQ. I already use this in
my FAQ's, and have even tweaked INN to put this header in NOV.
(so XHDR Article-Name is really fast)

To see the format of Article-Names:, check out ftp.zoo.toronto.edu:
/pub/news.{ps,txt}.Z

--Dave

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