Re: Last change dates in Subject fields

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Bernhard Muenzer (mue@gsf.de)
Mon, 11 Nov 1996 14:41:27 +0100


Bill Wohler wrote:
> I just got a request from a reader to add a Last Change date to my
> Subject field so that the user can decide early on whether to
> download the FAQ or not.

Another solution to this would be a diff posting accompanying your FAQ.

If you change your FAQ, you post an article with the subject "Changes
to FAQ" which contains all changes (preferably made automatically with
the Unix diff command or one of its DOS ports). For a large FAQ,
readers with a slow connection might choose to read this article first
and then decide if they really want to download tha updated FAQ.

If there are no changes, just use the subject "Changes to FAQ (no
changes since ...)" and people will know that they don't have to update
their archived version.

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