At 04:24 PM 12/4/00 -0500, SiKing wrote:
>Hello all,
To answer your question on how long will it take for your posting to be
approved by the moderators- don't hold your breath. The current backlog is
huge. That's the short version. I'm sure someone more in touch with these
things will give you the long version.
>If I want to use the "Supercedes" thing in my header, it is supposedly
>followed by a message ID. Hopefully this message ID matches the ID of
>the previous submission I have sent out a month (in my case) ago.
>Hopefully I have this right so far. My question is: what can I put in
>this message ID? If I let the computer assign one, it never looks like
>anyting as clean as what other people have (I looked through some FAQs
>in news.answers).
The important thing about the message ID is that is unique. That's why they
end in @<hostname> - provided the <hostname> you post from is unique, and
it should be by virtue of the Internet naming system, this means that all
you have to add is a further unique part at the beginning of the ID.
In order to generate this part you have to ask yourself are you the only
one using that host, and are you fully aware of the message IDs the host's
client software generates? If this is the case, you should be fairly
confident in generating prefixes like "MyFAQPartXIssueY", provided noone
else uses IDs of this form on your host, and host's client software will
never generate such an ID by accident. As you can probably guess, the event
of a clash is unlikely in either case.
Provided your client supports custom message IDs (and headers), you should
be able to add headers of the form:
Message-ID: <MyFAQPart3Issue36@myrealbox.com>
Supersedes: <MyFAQPart3Issue35@myrealbox.com>
References: <MyFAQPart1Issue36@myrealbox.com>
The first line specifies the message ID you want for your current post, the
second line is the message ID of the same part posted last time and the
last line, useful in multipart postings, is a reference to the first post
in the current series of parts. This last line allows threaded newsreaders
to group your FAQ in a thread.
These headers are posting headers, not supplementary headers, and must
appear along with From and Newsgroups. If your client won't allow this, it
is no good to add these lines at the beginning of the message body. You
will simply have to obtain a client that will allow such custom headers.
-- Archer http://www.geocities.com/SoHo/6413/End.
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