> I wanted to ask you folks how much you get asked to add the date.
> What problems have you encountered by doing it? Should the date
> appear first or last in the Subject field? Anything else I should
> consider before making the change? Will I have to notify the
> folks at rtfm (rhetorical question if it is mentioned in the
> guidelines)?
It's fairly common, but by no means universal. Many people use a
Last-Modified auxiliary header instead. One drawback is that multiple
copies of your FAQ will appear in the non-*.answers areas of the rtfm
archive, since it's stored by Subject there and duplicates only get
cleared out every couple of months. (You'll still only have one copy
in the *.answers area, and if you want you can avoid the other
redundancy by using Newsgroup-name-archive-name lines.) You'll need
to notify the moderators and wait for approval before adding a date,
but after than you can change the date without reapproval.
I would suggest putting the date at the end, to facilitate killfiles,
and using a universally understood format (10 Nov 96, 10-XI-96, etc.,
not 11/10/96 [or 10/11/96, depending on where you're from]).
-- - Pam Greene one of the *.answers moderation folks, news-answers-request@mit.edu
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