Re: Preventing mirroring

John Moulder (jmoulder@post.its.mcw.edu)
Wed, 12 Mar 1997 15:20:50 -0600

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> In the several years I have been maintaining the comp.lang.tcl FAQs,
> I've only been successful _once_ in convincing a mirror site to
> upgrade their copy of my FAQ. Note that there are _hundreds_ of
> copies, many of which are ancient.

I also find hundreds of pointers to my FAQs that point to out-dated or dead
archive sites.

My experience on getting pointers and mirrors updated is a little better, but
not better than 1 in 4

> And I see an average I would guess
> of 12 complaints a year or more about the FAQ which turn out to
> be references to the ancient ones.

Yes, this a a major problem. I find that complaints about out-dated material,
and questions that were dealt with in later versions, are more common than
real (new) queries. Sigh...

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