Being an usual practice to post FAQs regularly, even when there is no change,
as a logical way to try to keep the various news-servers with a current version,
it seems to me it would be a nice standard, at the moment adopted by just a
few, to post the version or date of last change in the subject header.
My personal motivation might be somewhat peculiar but I think it might serve
others at a not too high cost. If necessary some abbreviation seems almost
always possible, in some cases the "frequently asked questions" expression.
I'm not (yet?) a faq author or maintainer (and I take the chance to express
my admiration for you all) but I'm a kind of faq collector and having a slow
and $$$ dial-up connection to a news-server I first download the headers and
only after I decide what bodies to download. So you see my problem in
keeping an
updated collection.
In a week or so I'll start trying to persuade individualy some of you if I
don't receive any serious objection, since possibly some authors are not in
this list. I'll try not to bother all of those that meanwhile I'might know
have read this proposal, what will happen if you express your opinion
on this. If I'm successful I'll suggest Russ Hersch to include this as a
recommendation in the FAQ about FAQs.
Thank you
JD
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