Well, I guess you don't need to mention Chris' service here :) Refering
us to a FAQ along this subject should be good enough :) After all, we
are supposed to know what a FAQ is for.
> # Most important of all, I believe "FAQ-Maintainers@consensus.com" is
> # a mailing list for FAQ maintainers on FAQ issues. I recommend we use
> # private E-mails to exchange the views on spam cancellations. After
> # all, this mailing list is not primarily for spam cancellation discussions.
>
> This is identical to my beliefs as well. Let's see if we can follow the
> above paragraph except as it directly effects FAQ Maintainers.
It is hard to say. Chris Lewis raised this issue in this mailing list
since some of the FAQ documents are cancelled. Strictly speaking, this
should belong to the net abuse issue and not discussed in the FAQ
Maintainer mailing list. However, I believe it will also be wrong to
say "Chris posted something off-topic" here.
Otherwise we can also say "MIME introducing =" and "HTML/txt
transformation" should belong to another category instead of in this
FAQ mailing list.
> # (2) I am not in the news.answers moderation team. However, is the
> # cancel command affecting the FTP/WWW archiving mechanism for the
> # FAQ's?
>
> One problem I encountered in the WWW archive here was that the software
> used to repost the canceled FAQs did not take into consideration the
> Auxiliary headers. This is what I mean. From the RTFM copy of the
> (quotation of a resurrected FAQ removed)
> Notice the "Reposting article..." message and where it appears in the article.
> Most archiving software is not recognizing the Auxiliary header section since
> the Auxiliary header section is not in the right place. This is affecting
> the index creation on my site since I parse information from the header and
> auxiliary headers. I'm sure it's affecting other archives (they just might
> not know it.)
This is a problem, and it is what I was talking about. Right now it
seems some people are working on it. I am sorry that this is what I can
say at this point.
> (deleted)
>
> Again, the only problem that I have with what Chris is doing is that he
> needs to make his reposting software deal correctly with Auxiliary headers.
> Other than that I applaud his efforts and would like to thank him for the
> time he has taken to deal with the problem. Thanks Chris.
I am not Chris, but I guess it will be better if he can simply put the
string like "Cancelled by rogue canceller and resurrected by xxxxx" into
a header field like "X-Explanation-of-Resurrection" instead of a part of
the message body. This might be easier for him because in this way his
program does not need to distinguish auxiliary headers for FAQs from
ordinary texts.
One last thing and I apologize first if I should not raise the question
here: How can I unsubscribe my UCLA address from this mailing list and
subscribe my Netcom address? I tried to send E-mails to
"FAQ-Maintainers-request@consensus.com" with appropriate subjects
and it never works (I did not receive acknowledgement messages either).
-- Tung-chiang Yang tcyang@ee.ucla.edu Dept. of Electrical Engineering, UCLA, USA Nov 21, 1996
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