Re: To split or not to split

John Lock (jlock@mindspring.com)
Thu, 23 Feb 1995 10:11:56 -0500

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On Thu, 23 Feb 1995 12:56:07 +0200 (IST), Sibit
<sibit@zeus.datasrv.co.il>,
>What's the latest low down on multi-part FAQs. None of my readers have
>complained (at least not about the size of the FAQs ;-), and I really
>like keeping it all in one file. BUT - what about the poor person that
>has a newsreader that burps on large articles.

I just went through this exercise with the rec.food.drink.beer FAQ,
taking it from one 60k chunk to three 20k chunks. I hadn't gotten any
complaints either, but I was aware of some sites truncating large
articles and some users on very slow links just didn't bother with it.
Either way it's sort of at cross-purposes with the FAQ concept because
folks (many newbies) were not getting the FAQ.

Since I use the faq-server, periodic posting is no problem. Part 1
carries the posting cycle and Parts 2 & 3 are children of it so they
just ride along. Sure, maintenance is a little trickier, but it just
means paying closer attention to what you're doing. It certainly
hasn't hurt me to be reminded to do that :-)

John

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