> It the moment their is a list that is used to keep track of the approved
> postings, and it contains a sample of the subject line. To change the
> line would require updating this list each time. Not to say it could not
> be done, just the way things work at the moment.
The *.answers submission guidelines discusses this issue:
b. Subject (REQUIRED)
---------------------
[....]
Your Subject must have the exact same capitalization,
punctuation, and spacing every time, but a date or version
number can change, as long as the format stays constant.
The *.answers moderators use a database from which the List of
Periodic Informational Postings (LoPIP) is generated, and which is
also used by the software which archives postings on rtfm.mit.edu, and
the software which cleans up the archives. Our software supports
limited wildcarding for purposes of matching, which means that they
won't complain about changing dates or version numbers when archiving
your latest postings, and during the archives cleanup, they will
remove all but the most recently archived posting which matches a
given entry. (This is somewhat complicated for multi-part postings
which have only a single LoPIP entry; suffice it to say that with a
small amount of additional work, and database fields which you don't
see in the public LoPIP, all the software will "do the right thing".)
Any worries that multiple versions of your postings will be archived
on rtfm.mit.edu can be alleviated if your posting is cross-posted to
*.answers (in which case they have an Archive-name: auxillary header
from which their archive names are formed, independently of their
Subject: header). Or, you can add a newsgroup-specific archive name
auxillary header, which is also discussed in the *.answers submission
guidelines, in section 2.1.C:
Subject: 2. More detail and special cases
=========================================
2.1 More optional headers
C. Other archive names (OPTIONAL)
-- Ping Huang <pshuang@mit.edu>; more info: http://web.mit.edu/pshuang/.plan Disclaimer: unless explicitly otherwise stated, my statements represent my personal viewpoints only.Reference: ftp://rtfm.mit.edu/pub/usenet/news.answers/news-answers/guidelines
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