On 4/23/2001, David Alex Lamb <dalamb@cs.queensu.ca> wrote:
> The faq-server is currently failing for days on end, perhaps because
> of overload on rtfm.mit.edu. We can't be certain since everyone who
> knows the details of how it works are long gone.
Well that's highly disconcerting.
I sent my FAQ there because none of my news posting programs allow for the necessary header lines, at least not easily. The FAQ posting server was my only solution at the time a year-plus ago.
Its been relatively faithful and posted my FAQ this month relatively on-time. Since it posts by the number of days I usually have to "reset" the timer so that it posts closer to the beginning of a month every few months. I usually wait until it starts showing up in the 2nd week of a month, trying to at least keep close to the first week of a month.
In any event, this news suggests that the whole FAQ approval and maintenance process is more in trouble than previously advanced here?
---Bottom line - If there is no FAQ server and no one to approve, then some adjustment has to be made to compensate the process. As suggested above, many modern news posting programs don't allow, or easily allow all the necessary extra lines, and more importantly, those who are willing to post and maintain a FAQ may not also be willing to partake of additional technical training or the acquiring of programs that will let them do it.
In short, if you can't do it with Outlook, Netscape, or some Mac program line Newswatcher, then you are limiting the process.
Its only a singular opinion but if the systems in place, mechanical or process, are failing, then you have three choices - fix it, replace it, or close up shop.
DMK
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