Re: future of RTFM *.answers archives

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A. T. Hagan (athagan@sprintmail.com)
Sun, 14 Mar 1999 01:41:29 GMT

This would be a good thing. I stopped posting my FAQ to the Usenet
with the last version update due to its size and the necessary number of
volumes I'd have to break it into. I'd participate in something that
handled both Usenet and web site based FAQs somehow.

># - increasingly often, FAQ writers are keeping web-only versions and thus
># not posting, so rtfm and it's echoes aren't quite the repositories they
># used to be.
>
>Absolutely. This is the real problem.
>
># 3. To avoid confusing the existing software and mirrors, which expect to find
># textual USENET postings, we'd probably need yet another set of directories
># for holding HTML faqs. I dunno how the actual rtfm maintainers would
># react to this; I don't know them or their environment very well [*.answers
># moderators are essentially guests at rtfm]
>
>There should be no reason they couldn't be combined so that both web and
>usenet faqs are available from the same facility.

...................Alan.

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