> I'm in the process of updating some archiving software I wrote a couple
> years back. As a part of that updating I thought it might be nice to
> be able to fully support the *.answer headers as well. I read through
> the guidlines looking for a good definition of the "standard *.answers"
> headers. Here are the "auxiliary" headers I found described in the
> *.answers guidelines.
>
> Archive-name: foo/welcome
> Posting-Frequency: monthly
> Last-modified: 1992/03/25
> Version: 2.5
> URL: http://some-site.org/my_faq.html
> newsgroup-archive-name: filename
>
> Just for the heck of it, I decided to see what people were using to see how
> it matched up with the documented information. What I found was a surprise.
> The (not complete) list is included at the end of this message. X- headers
> found in the auxiliary section are not listed as they are local use headers
> and it is understood they are to be ignored.
>
> The auxiliary headers were put in FAQs for a couple of purposes, to support
> the archiving of the faq and to supply additional information to the reader.
> I can see where some of these headers listed below can be useful and it *is*
> up to the FAQ maintainers to add them as they see fit but what we have today
> is:
>
> 4 different ways to represent the Archive-name: header
> 7 different ways to represent the Posting-Frequency: header
> 13 different ways to represent the Last-modified: header
> 5 different ways to represent the Version: header
> 6 different ways to represent the URL: header
> 8 different ways to represent the Maintainer: header
> 2 different ways to represent the Copyright: header
An excellent, informative post that illustrates how difficult it is to
automate the processing of the excellent information to be found in FAQ
posts. That's one of the reasons I'm still posting most of my FAQs the
old-fashioned way (not explicitly as news.answers FAQs) or as Web pages,
or both. I look forward to the discussion on these issues. Meanwhile I'm
researching still more ways to protect my copyright in all my FAQ files
and my entire Web site--I am disgusted at how many shameless plagiarists
there are on USENET.
--
Karl M. Bunday bunda002@gold.tc.umn.edu
http://198.83.19.39/School_is_dead/Learn_in_freedom.html
by other authors:
"The Achievement Crisis is Real"
http://seamonkey.ed.asu.edu/epaa/v4n1.html
"Markets Versus Monopolies in Education"
http://seamonkey.ed.asu.edu/epaa/v4n9.html
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