Re: ftp://rtfm.mit.edu/pub/faqs/

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Pamela Greene (pgreene@optics.rochester.edu)
Mon, 2 Jun 1997 11:59:27 -0400 (EDT)

.mau. wrote:
> My 2c-worth proposal: let's set for a subheader (local header... I mean
> those at the beginning of the text, like Archive-name) which can act as the
> Keywords: header. This way, it could be possible to create automatically
> a file with all of these headers, which can be browsed by interested
> people in order to find where exactly the required FAQ is located.

Files are also stored in their newsgroups' directories, so someone
looking for a FAQ about, say, Italian newsgroups could look in
ftp://rtfm.mit.edu/pub/usenet/it.news.gruppi/
and find the file there too.

The rtfm.mit.edu archive supported WAIS full-text searching for a
while, but the load was too heavy and it was disabled. However,
several other archives still support searching, including (according
to our records)
http://www.faqs.org/faqs/search.html
and
http://www.cs.ruu.nl/cgi-bin/faqwais

Finally, if somebody wants to do this, why not just use the Keywords:
header?

- Pam