Re: Updating the FAQ archives prior to posting

Michael Clive Price (price@price.demon.co.uk)
Sun, 26 Feb 1995 22:26:44 GMT

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Ping Huang writes:
> We don't want to start the precedent of permitting FAQ
> maintainers to post to just the *.answers newsgroups on
> any kind of a long-term basis. [....]
> 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.

But if the archive were updated via posting to news.answers then doesn't
that count as a usenet posting? This would (presumably) solve your
legal problems, although I don't know about your procedural problems.

[In answer to the other suggestions: no there isn't any material I
want to delete from the full FAQ, which is approx 130K and is a small
proportion of the total traffic of some of the newsgroups. Even so
I'd rather not post monthly in full to all the newsgroups because
some of them are lower volume. Splitting into "pages" won't help
because the total volume posted remains the same and I still have
the same problems (as Ping Huang pointed out) with updates. Creating
a meta-FAQ, with a pointer, for wider distribution and just broadcasting
the full FAQ to one of the busier newsgroups would work. Just looking
for a more elegant solution, I guess.....]

Michael Price price@price.demon.co.uk

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