I am afraid that the only solution to this (should many ISP's decide to
reduce the expiration for their news servers, which will affect FAQs)
is making rtfm.mit.edu enact a public news server so that
(1) it is read only, so people cannot spam the public server.
(2) it carries "news.answers", "soc.answers", "xxx.answers" only.
In this case, I believe this server can afford to keep the FAQ files
without expiring them for *months* or even years.
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> Date: Thu, 6 Feb 1997 02:04:47 -0500
> Message-Id: <v03007812af1f2b23adf1@[205.252.121.209]>
> From: Brad Knowles <brad@his.com>
> Subject: Re: FAQ Maintainers Digest for 2/5/97
>
> (deleted)
>
> I reiterate my position -- I utterly refuse to give a single
> angstrom on this matter. Other, more effective techniques are
> already available, and the only ones that will be hurt are all NetCom
> users (since FAQs won't be left around nearly as long as they would
> have been, assuming they make it through at all), and all users
> everywhere else who have to deal with the dreckage and bletchery the
> NetCom unwashed masses cause.
>
> (deleted)
Tung-chiang Yang tcyang@netcom.com
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