There's work in progress which we all hope is going to resolve the
moderation impasse. Real Soon Now. Really.
At 4:24 PM -0500 12/04/00, SiKing wrote:
>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).
I strongly recommend that you use the posting server at rtfm.mit.edu,
which is mentioned in the docs you've read. You will need to get a
separate document (from the same source) of instructions on how to use
it. It's easy and will take care of all these matters for you. Most
likely many of the "neat" message IDs you have seen are from this
posting server.
If you want to do it by hand, you'll need a posting client which allows
you to insert a Supersedes header. (NOTA BENE: it's "supersedes", not
"supercedes" as you wrote -- this is a common error and it won't work
if misspelled.) Hopefully such a client will allow you simply to pick a
previously posted article to supersede, and will copy the message-id
automatically. As a general rule, you may not have control over the
message IDs generated.
The first few times I posted my FAQ, I went through a manual procedure
to copy the previous message ID, add a Supersedes header, and paste in
the old message ID. Over about six months I managed to make every
possible error in this procedure (including misspelling "supersedes"),
despite having made out a checklist. And that was in the days when my
FAQ had only one part rather than the five parts it has now. Then I
spent a couple of hours setting up to use the rtfm.mit.edu posting
server, and I've never regretted it.
Note that you can't actually use the posting server until your FAQ is
approved for *.answers, but you can get everything set up. The only
significant part of the setup is that you must write the From,
Newsgroups, Followup-to, Subject, and certain other headers manually.
For example, the start of the file I send to the server is
From: edward@paleo.org (Edward Reid)
Newsgroups: misc.health.diabetes,misc.answers,news.answers
Followup-To: misc.health.diabetes
Subject: diabetes FAQ: general (part 1 of 5)
Organization: Paleolithic Refugia
Reply-To: edward@paleo.org
Approved: news-answers-request@MIT.Edu
Summary: Discusses questions which have been asked frequently in
misc.health.diabetes. Likely to be of interest to anyone who
has
diabetes or a friend or relative with diabetes or other blood
glucose disorder.
Archive-name: diabetes/faq/part1
Posting-Frequency: biweekly
Last-modified: 15 September 2000 (excludes change list and Table of
Contents)
Edward Reid
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