> That's interesting. So that's one key piece of information that
> would have been explained to me had I received a normal confirmation
> that my FAQ was accepted?
Submitting a file to the moderators for approval, whether you do so
directly or by using the faq-checker at news-answers-submit@mit.edu,
is entirely separate from "submitting" it to the faq-server. Approval
gets the FAQ listed in the List of Periodic Informational Postings and
allows you to post it to *.answers newsgroups, however you choose to
do the actual posting. The faq-server is just one of your options for
posting the file regularly and automatically, and its records (and the
files it keeps on hand to post) are entirely separate from the rest of
the *.answers records and rtfm.mit.edu archives.
There is no password for news.answers approval, so you didn't miss
anything in that wayward approval reply. If you're posting on your
own, by hand or using a script, you don't need any password, as far as
we're concerned. On the other hand, if you decide to use the
faq-server to post, you choose your own password and tell the
faq-server what it is when you first ADD the file to the server (i.e.,
tell it to begin posting for you). You'd need that password to UPDATE
the file the faq-server uses to post, to change its posting INTERVAL,
to check its STATUS, etc.
For more information about the faq-server, send email to
faq-server@rtfm.mit.edu with Subject: help . (Granted, the help
message is a bit obtuse. Rewriting it is on our list of things to
do.) If you have any more questions about it, drop us a note.
- Pam Greene
one of the *.answers moderators, news-answers-request@mit.edu
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