FAQ server children, plus response times

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Pamela Greene (pgreene@optics.rochester.edu)
Fri, 12 Jan 1996 14:18:18 -0500 (EST)


We try to take care of simple header changes and adding new parts to
multi-part postings quickly, since they don't usually take long. This
depends on our being able to recognize such requests from their
Subject lines, though. ("Change" is a good word to include.)
Splitting postings is more complicated.

Postings which are classified as children by the faq-server are still
archived in separate files, according to their Archive-names. The
differences happen when they're posted: children will only be posted
when a parent file is, in spite of any FORCE commands they're given;
and when they are posted, the children will have References: headers
which point to the parent article. This is a Good Thing, since it
allows many people to treat (e.g., select, save, print) the whole
multi-part posting as though it were one article.

You should be able to make existing parts children of the proper part1
using the PARENT command. New parts can be ADDed as children right
from the start.

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- Pam Greene
one of the *.answers moderators, news-answers-request@mit.edu


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