Re: Archive: line

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John D. Verne (jdv@psyche.the-wire.com)
Fri, 9 May 1997 14:23:46 -0400 (EDT)


On Fri, 9 May 1997, Danny R. Faught wrote:

> John D. Verne wrote:
> > Who or what references the "Archive:" line?
>
> Look in /pub/usenet/news.answers. There you'll find a (rather wide)
> directory hierarchy based on archive name. I suppose it's more
> user-friendly to make it easier to find FAQs by newsgroup and subject,
> but I wish the archive name hierarchy weren't hidden so well.

OK. I found my home newsgroup, but never thought to look in *.answers.
Guess I'm guilty of NOT READING MY FAQ SUBMISSION GUIDELINES. Sorry. Mea
culpa.

> > I've also managed to get multiple copies archived at rtfm, on account of
> > my making minor changes to this subject. I thought I was safe, and that
> > this info wasn't supposed to be static.
>
> See the news-answers/postapproval-guidelines FAQ. This is one of the
> changes you have to tell the rtfm folks about. Maybe the archive
> software should have noticed that there was another file with the same
> archive name out there, though.

See above. mit.edu will be getting my re-submission Real Soon Now.

John D. Verne <jdv@the-wire.com>