Tung-chiang Yang wrote:
> Personally I believe Maintainer: field is redundant. Usually the
> maintainer is just the person who regularly posts the FAQ to
> news.answers (the address in From:), and in that case there is no
> need to have another auxiliary header.
>
> Of course, I do not use the automatic FAQ poster program and maybe
> it puts different things in From:, which I am not sure.
All of the automatic posting programs I know of, including post_faq,
auto-faq, and the faq-server, put the correct poster's name in the
From: header. However, some FAQs are maintained by teams, and others
are maintained by one person and posted by another, so the Maintainer:
header is sometimes useful. In any FAQs where it would be redundant,
it can simply be left out, but at least mentioning it in the
guidelines should help to standardize those cases where it is used.
What exactly does it mean to say that rkive "recognizes" certain
auxiliary headers? What would it then be able to do with them?
- Pam Greene
one of the *.answers moderators, news-answers-request@mit.edu
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