Rip Van Winkle needs help

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Carl Symborski (carl@umd5.umd.edu)
Tue, 14 Oct 1997 15:46:55 -0400 (EDT)

So I have a few questions, being an old timer who is now getting
back into the swing of posting his FAQ. About 2 years ago I
refrained from regularly posting my FAQ for a variety of reasons. Since
then I have relied on my HTML version & WEB pages to meet the needs
of my community. Lately some folks have asked for the old ASCII
version back. So now I maintain HTML, convert to ASCII, and want
to post this in the grand FAQ tradition.

So I put my approved FAQ headers from two years ago on
part 1 of the FAQ and posted to my group as well as comp.answers
and news.answers. Just like I did way back when.

Question: I got an email back saying my request was in some such position
in the *.answers processing queue. Is this OK/Normal, or did I
get kicked into some other mode since I haven't posted in so long?

Question: I never saw my posting in the comp.dcom.cell-relay news
group either. (This is the group I FAQ for). Is this normal?
Is there some mechanism which would prevent the posting from
going to my unmoderated group when I also cross post to the
moderated groups comp.answers and news.answers?

I hear that there is this FAQ-checker thing. I sent my part 1
to that and got a OK scan from the checker script. Not surprising
given that I am using my approved header.

Question: Have I now fowled things up further by submitting for
approval a FAQ which is already approved?

I have refrained from sending parts 2->8 at this time until I can
sort this out.

Thanks in advance,
Carl