Going back to the original request - faqs.org or a new web site hosted
by rtfm could allow FAQ maintainers to submit their own html'ized
versions of their FAQs to replace the automatically generated
versions.
That suggests a conundrum - if a FAQ author submits an html'ized FAQ
but doesn't update it, and does post an updated ASCII version, should
the archives revert to the automatically generated approach in order
to stay up to date?
To simplify things - when a FAQ uses the URL header, simply link
directly to that instead of trying to generate an html version. Why
wasn't this the approach taken originally?
This doesn't cover the case where an html version isn't posted and
doesn't already have a home page.
Does rtfm allow a FAQ to be archived even if it isn't posted? Or
maybe I'm just thinking of the offer to list in the LoPiP a FAQ that
doesn't get posted. In any case, when only a pointer to a FAQ is
posted to Usenet, the FAQ author could make sure the full html version
(or even an ASCII version) is always available in the archives.
-Danny
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