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

Aliza R. Panitz (buglady@bronze.lcs.mit.edu)
Tue, 11 Oct 1994 17:42:04 -0400

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

Tale responded:
> 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.

There are three different models for the way faqs(*) are archived
at RTFM:

(1) Newsgroups: comp.sys.banana-jr,comp.answers,news.answers
Subject: Banana Junior FAQ
X-Note: typical FAQ cross-posted to *.answers

Archive-name: banana-jr-faq

/pub/usenet/news.answers/banana-jr-faq
/pub/usenet/comp.answers/banana-jr-faq
/pub/usenet/comp.sys.banana-jr/Banana_Junior_FAQ

(2) Newsgroups: rec.pets.rocks
Subject: Pet Rock FAQ
X-Note: typical FAQ not cross-posted to *.answers, but listed
in the LoPIP and archived at RTFM

/pub/usenet/rec.pets.rocks/Pet_Rock_FAQ

(3) Newsgroups: alt.drugs.caffeine,rec.food.drink.soda,alt.answers,rec.answers,news.answers
Subject: Diet Soda FAQ
X-Note: FAQ whose maintainer has selected different archive
names for the different groups where posted.

Archive-name: food/diet-soda-faq
Alt-drugs-caffeine-archive-name: diet-soda-faq
Rec-food-drink-soda-archive-name: diet-faq

/pub/usenet/news.answers/food/diet-soda-faq
/pub/usenet/alt.answers/food/diet-soda-faq
/pub/usenet/rec.answers/food/diet-soda-faq
/pub/usenet/alt.drugs.caffeine/diet-soda-faq
/pub/usenet/rec.food.drink.soda/diet-faq

So, basically, all periodic posts get archived by their archive names
under *.answers, and get archived under their Subjects in their 'home'
newsgroups, unless the poster has specified otherwise.

Personally, I think that it's useful to archive posts by their subjects,
since the archive-names are often a bit cryptic. This is especially
the case with multi-part faqs where each part has a topical description
in the Subject line, but the archive names are just part1, part2,
part3... also, since the only way to archive non-*.answers posts is by
their Subject lines, it puts everything on the same footing in the
directories.

However, if someone chooses to archive their post by something other
than the Subject, the mechanism to do it is supported.

- Aliza

(*) 'faq' in the generic common sense, equivalent to 'periodic
posting', as opposed to the proper noun 'FAQ', which stands for
a Frequently Asked Questions list. :-)

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