Re: posting on specific dates

Dave Schweisguth (dcs@proton.chem.yale.edu)
Fri, 9 Aug 1996 14:05:43 -0400 (EDT)

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Edward Reid <edward@paleo.greensboro.fl.us> wrote:
> After a few months I found that I no longer cared what day of the month or
> day of the week it got posted. It posts when it posts. I update when I
> update. If I update just after a posting, well, two weeks isn't too long to
> wait.

We post the SGI FAQs from our own machine using post_faq and cron; it happens
that cron is oriented toward dates rather than intervals, so we post on
specific dates. Nonetheless, Ed's statement is still completely true for us.

Cheers,

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