In message <Pine.LNX.3.96.1010604214252.7359B-100000@tartarus.uwa.edu.au>
James Andrewartha <trs80@tartarus.uwa.edu.au> wrote:
[snip]
> I have an FAQ of which I recently took over the maintership. However, the
> previous maintainer didn't post it to news.answers, and the maintainer
> before that is uncontactable. From reading the previous threads, it seems
> as if the moderators are unwilling to remove the previous version of the
> FAQ if the maintainer of that version doesn't give permission.
This is a slightly different case to the one we were discussing in another
thread; you're taking over an old FAQ rather than writing a new one for
which you want to use the same archive-name.
> However, since I was wanting to use a new (more descriptive) archive name
> anyway, I take it that I just need to submit my faq for automated approval
> (via news-answers@mit.edu), I don't need to get the maintainer listed in
> the version on rtfm and faqs.org to email news-answers-request@mit.edu
> saying that I'm the new maintainter?
You need to write to us at news-answers-request@mit.edu saying that you've
taken over the maintainership of whichever FAQ it is. We'll contact the
old maintainer for confirmation of this changeover. On his/her approval,
or if he's uncontactable, we'll update our records with you as the
maintainer and you can then change the archive-name.
(Please use news-answers-submit@rtfm.mit.edu for FAQ submissions; it does a
lot of the checking-of-headers work for us and so greatly reduces the time
taken for us to process submissions. Submissions sent to this address are
usually processed within a couple of days, others will take much much
longer.)
Cheers,
Nick
--
Angels can fly because
they take themselves lightly.
-- G.K. Chesterton, "Orthodoxy"
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