Re: future of RTFM *.answers archives

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David Alex Lamb (dalamb@cs.queensu.ca)
Fri, 12 Mar 1999 17:02:23 -0500 (EST)

> From: Kent Landfield <kent@landfield.com>
> Date: Fri, 12 Mar 1999 15:50:32 -0600 (CST)
>
> # 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.
>
> Maybe the faq archive could automatically inject it into the Usenet
> stream as well if the author requested it... (Just a thought.)

The faq-server already does some autoposting of FAQs; I imagine some
extensions are possible. I haven't seen any signs of
FAQs-that-are-stored-but-not-posted except as side effects of the FAQ server
(if your FAQ is approved and you store it with the server, you can suspend it
so it doesn't get posted). I don't know yet whether the faq server files are
accessible from the FTP server, so that they could be fetched by enterprising
mirror sites, but if not it's probably not hard to arrange.

Of course, lots of people find the server kind of clunky these days. Perhaps
upgrading the faq server interface to be web-based might be a reasonable
migration path.

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