Re: Age of Faqs - Determining factor

Anthony Naggs (amn@ubik.demon.co.uk)
Wed, 26 May 1999 01:21:52 +0100

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In message <01010064.n0h0li@titipu.paleo.org>, Edward Reid
<edward@paleo.org> wrote
>
>I don't believe we've run into a case where someone leaves
>an FAQ autoposting and then disappears. The ones we are
>talking about are cases in which the FAQ has not been
>posted.

Changes of email address can be quite a problem.

A while back I tried to contact the maintainers of the sci.crypt FAQ and
the contact email address, (a pseudonym), no longer worked. Also the
contributors didn't have their email addresses listed.

I reported the problem to David & Pamela, though by the time they
responded I had spent a couple of hours digging through Dejanews and had
made contact with the maintainers. (I searched for recent postings from
the FAQ's contributors and fortunately found one.)

I know of problems in the further past, (several years ago), where the
moderator of comp.virus, (then Ken van Wyk), no longer had access to the
account from which he had submitted the FAQ to MIT. So MIT was
apparently posting the old FAQ and zapping his attempts to post a newer
version. This took a long time to sort out.

Rgds.

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