Re: future of RTFM *.answers archives

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Danny R. Faught (faught@rsn.hp.com)
Fri, 12 Mar 1999 17:37:48 -0600

On Fri, Mar 12, 1999 at 03:50:32PM -0600, Kent Landfield wrote:
> # 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?
>
> That's a good question. Got an answer ?

Hmmm, a high level requirement should be to at least alert the reader
(and the FAQ author) when there is a version conflict like this. Maybe
give them a choice (the ultimate weasel decision in software design :-).

This raises the issue of updating. There's a nice, automated process
for updating the ASCII FAQs. For html submittals, we need something
just as easy.

-Danny

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