Thank you all for replying so quickly. Just a couple of
calirifications, if you don't mind :)
I am going to concatenate(sp?) several messages into one here ...
Kade Hansson wrote:
> 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.
Assuming that my client can understand all of these, what does the
"Supersedes" mean to it? I already know the other two. What does it do
with this information? Does it expire the message specified?
Also, I do know that it is supposed to be mispelled as "Supercedes:" ...
I remember reading someplace that the person who wrote the spec on this
screwed up, but now it is in the spec ...
> 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.
Actually, for now I use Netscape, which natively allows almost nothing
... BUT, Netscape (thank God) is stupid and ignorant enough that I can
go in there with MS-Notepad, and hack up the headers any way I want and
Netscape will then blindly send out the message with all of my hacks.
:)
Edward Reid wrote:
> 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.
...snip...
> 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.
I think this will be my first project right after I get approved, which
as some people pointed out might be a long time. Thanx for the
suggestion tho'. :)
Again, thank you all, SiKing.
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