> Is there anything that FAQ authors as a group can or should do about this?
> Or should we just accept it as life in the nineties, and revise our own
> working habits to fit within such policies? Maybe the crosspost policies
> for news.answers need to be rethought.
Post the FAQs once a day, separately to each newsgroup (instead
of cross-posting them). Then they won't expire. And make sure
that the bozos over in NetCom understand that they are *personally*
responsible for this change in our posting methods and frequency.
Mama Lani <lani@lava.net> responded:
> We are required by the rtfm mod team to include news.answers *and*
> *.answers (rec.answers, alt.answers, soc.answers, etc.).
Not all FAQs need to be cross-posted to these groups.
For example, the comp.mail.sendmail FAQ is not appropriate on the
first and thirds newsgroups you mention.
Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> answered:
> Guess again. It's *already* well below 3 days at many sites, especially
> for newsgroups that the admin regards as noise. If your site can afford
> more than 3 days across the board, you're not taking anything like a full
> feed.
AOL keeps stuff around for *months*, and I guarantee you that
we have a pretty full feed. We want our users to be able to go back
quite a ways (if they so choose, by default they don't normally see
messages that old), without having to go to a Usenet news archive
site like DejaNews or InReference. Of course, news archive sites
like this also have a pretty full feed.
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