Pamela Greene wrote:
>
>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
Actually, my request was for addition of new parts only - it took these
folks 2 months++ to get it to work.
Why not have such trivial changes to FAQs be maintained in a separate
queue.
Drago
>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.
>
>--
>- Pam Greene
>one of the *.answers moderators, news-answers-request@mit.edu
>
>
-- Dragomir R. Radev Graduate Research Assistant Natural Language Processing Group Columbia University CS Department Home: 212-749-9770 Office: 212-939-7121 http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~radev
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