> 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'm having difficulty understanding how a posting which discusses how
hard it is to automatically process the information in auxillary
headers in FAQ postings supports your position of choosing not to
cross-post your FAQ's into *.answers.
It may be hard for rkive (and Kent) to figure out what a thousand
different FAQ maintainers actually meant when they use non-standard
auxillary headers, and therefore he may choose to abandon the task of
trying to understand any headers other than those specified in the
*.answers guidelines, but why does that make your job of getting
*your* particular FAQ's approved for *.answers any harder? I.e., 999
other FAQ maintainers may use 999 wildly different auxillary header
lines for the same purpose that you have when you add a "Version:"
line, but I don't see why that makes it any harder for you.
--
Ping Huang <pshuang@mit.edu>; more info: http://web.mit.edu/pshuang/.plan
Disclaimer: unless explicitly otherwise stated, my
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