Re: faq-server and mailing lists

Bernhard Muenzer (mue@gsf.de)
Thu, 30 Mar 1995 14:47:25 +0200

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>The newsgroup rec.sport.fencing is echoed in a digest
>mailing list to various subscribers. The Fencing FAQ is
>posted via MIT's faq-server to r.s.f every 15 days, but if an
>update hasn't occurred in the interval, then the content is
>identical to the previous time it was posted. Trouble is, the
>mailing list server rejects the FAQ in these circumstances
>because of a checksum match -- it doesn't want to serve
>duplicate posts.
>
>Should I just ignore this problem, and leave it for the mailing
>list admins to sort out?

That's what I would suggest.

Mailing lists usually don't have so much fluctuation in their readership;
so it shouldn't be necessary to re-send the FAQ list twice a month.

Furthermore, many mailing lists send the current FAQ file to everyone
signing on the list, so everybody on the list should have received
the latest version of the FAQ file anyways.

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