We don't want to start the precedent of permitting FAQ maintainers to
post to just the *.answers nwesgroups on any kind of a long-term
basis. The pre-December version of the guidelines did mention that
you could post once to just *.answers immediately after approval, if
you notified us you were going to do so. The post-December rewritten
version dropped that provision (I'll admit that I did not explicitly
discuss the drop with the other moderators....) The purpose of the
provision was to let someone who got approval immediately after having
posted their FAQ to the home newsgroup(s) post to *.answers without
introducing an extra copy in the home newsgroup(s), but very few
people felt the need to take advantage of the provision, and it seemed
to me to complicate the guidelines without generating much advantage
in return (and it wouldn't help you solve your perceived problem,
since it was meant to be a one-shot thing).
A little while back, there was a thread about whether FAQ maintainers
should be able to update their postings on rtfm.mit.edu more directly
(in context of the faq-server). My response then and now is that the
rtfm.mit.edu:/pub/usenet*/ archives are intended to be archives of
Usenet, and that to permit materials onto the archives which were
never posted would open cans of worms, both legal and procedural,
which we'd rather not have to deal with.
Ping Huang, member of the *.answers moderation team
(news-answers-request@MIT.EDU)
P.S. Note that the summary which you post monthly, if you keep the
headers (notably Subject line) otherwise identical, will get archived
on rtfm.mit.edu as /pub/usenet/NEWGROUP/Many_Worlds_FAQ, for all the
non-*.answers newsgroups. The full version, however, will remain
available as /pub/usenet/news.answers/many-worlds-faq. So if you only
point people at the /pub/usenet/NEWSGROUP/Many_Worlds_FAQ path, that
*WILL* get updated once a month. It'll be a little funny, though,
since depending on which month they fetch a copy, they may get the
full version or they may get the summary.
P.P.S. Drop us a line at news-answers-request to remind us to
reconcile the List of Periodic Informational Postings records to match
your actual posting frequency and your eventual intent, so that our
scripts don't get unhappy at your posting's changing Newsgroups line.
Reference:
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> I maintain a FAQ that I broadcast in full to receipient newsgroups,
> including the *.answers groups, every 3 months, but post an abridged
> version to the non-*.answers groups (so as not to overwrite the
> archives) with a pointer to the FAQ archives every month. Is there
> any way of updating the archives more frequently than 3-monthly, except
> by posting exclusively via the *.answers newsgroups? The latter course
> would involve bugging the moderators each month informing them of my
> intentions, if I read the FAQ manintainers guide correctly, and I assume
> they would not care to be bothered so. Or have I misunderstood the
> guide and in fact I only have to tell the moderators once?
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