Re: OSU and other non-compliant archives

Sasha Wood (sasha@GS46.SP.CS.CMU.EDU)
Wed, 24 Jan 96 11:54:43 EST

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The problem, as I see it, is that OSU's archive is a very popular site
to point to FAQs at, but the OSU folks are totally unwilling to keep
their archive up to date or maintain it in any way. I think
convincing them to stop archiving the FAQs would be the best solution,
but short of a series of cease and desist order, I don't think they
will stop.

It seems to me that the next best option is to discredit OSU as an
archive site. As FAQ maintainers, we could do this by adding a
paragraph to our FAQs that says something like:

The Ohio State (OSU) FAQ archive is out of date. Please do not link
to FAQs archived at OSU. Instead, link to one of the archive sites
listed in the "Introduction to the *.answers newsgroups"
(ftp://rtfm.mit.edu/pub/usenet/news.answers/news-answers/introduction)
I recommend linking to <site foo>.

And we could add something similar on any Web pages we maintain that
point to FAQs. And we could send something equivalent to anyone who
points to our FAQs at OSU, asking them to please point elsewhere. It
seems like a concerted effort to discredit OSU as an archive site
could minimize the damage that their out-of-date FAQs do.

Sasha Wood
sasha@cs.cmu.edu
soc.support.fat-acceptance and alt.support.big-folks FAQs maintainer

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