I'm such a newbie at this that you should ignore what I say, but
that's won't stop me from offering an opinion. ;-)
Monthly is the longest period I've heard of using for a regular FAQ
posting. Any longer than that would be much too long.
As to whether to post the whole thing every time, that seems to be a
controversial topic. You can just post a short pointer instead, and
demand that all the readers get ftp and/or web access. Maybe you
could post to news.answers but *not* the r.a.s.* groups, then you
could post a pointer to that. I'm sure that breaks some of the rules,
but it would solve a lot of the problems.
Personally, I find it appalling that so much of the new news software
doesn't allow for kill file mechanisms that would eliminate a lot of
problems like this. There really should be direct support in the news
architecture for finding a FAQ file, but now I'm getting too ambitious.
-Danny (comp.software.testing FAQ maintainer)
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