Re: future of RTFM *.answers archives

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Kent Landfield (kent@landfield.com)
Fri, 12 Mar 1999 16:16:59 -0600 (CST)

# 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.

You are thinking of Usenet here... ;)

Brainstorming mode here.... Not all faqs listed would want to be posted to
Usenet. Some would not be in a format that people find acceptable (i.e. html
with extensive graphics). It might be nice if there was a means for the
author to post a notice of FAQ availability. They could enter in the text of
the message, the groups to post it to (very limited set. ;)) and the archive
would periodically post the faq description message. This would cut down
on traffic and could even be used in other "net.resource locator" applications.

# 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.

http://www.faqs.org/faq-maintainers/faq-server/

:) It's a start... ;)

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