Re: Archive-Name -- what does it mean?

David C Lawrence (tale@uunet.uu.net)
Tue, 11 Oct 1994 13:38:22 -0400

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Ross Smith writes:
> I've been meaning to ask this for a while, and seeing the subject come
> up reminded me: Why are FAQs archived under such peculiar names? It
> makes it very difficult for me to tell people "You can find my FAQ on
> rtfm.mit.edu under the following file name(s)...".

Why is that very difficult? Besides the fact that you can simply
point them at the news.answers version of it, archived by
Archive-Name, it should have a consistent name, based on the Subject
header, in the directories for the group to which you post it.

I'm quite sincere; I honestly don't understand what you find is very
difficult about this.

> And what's the point of our putting archive names on our FAQs at all
> if rtfm isn't going to respect them?

They do, in the *.answers trees. If anyone is polling, I am also in
favour of the archive maintainers doing it for the other group trees,
but maybe there is some issue there that I am not aware of for them
not doing so yet.

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