rubywand@swbell.net wrote at Thu, 07 Jun 2001 08:29:04 CDT:
> Recently sent in updates (26 documents) via the usual method to the
> automated server at faq-server@rtfm.mit.edu and got back a bunch of
> "failure notice" messages.
I just sent in an update to my own posting to faq-server this morning
and did not get any error messages. Supplying more of the error than
simply noting they were "failure notice" messages would certainly help
with diagnosis. It is possible that you caught the faq-server
temporarily down to break the mail loop that was sapping much of the
resources of rtfm.mit.edu, as described by Nick's email yesterday.
Retrying is probably called for.
> Is the automated server going down the drain?
While it has been subject to somewhat increased entropy per the laws
of thermodynamics (given that it has been a relatively closed system
with little maintainance put into it), I don't know that I would
describe it as going down the drain. But, it's been up and running
longer than most readers of this message have been on the Internet,
I'd say it wasn't doing too shabbily.
> Should all updates now be done via posts to news.answers?
>
> Is there any problem (special permission, etc.) involved in going from
> automated posting to direct posting?
The majority of FAQ posters do not and never have gone through the
faq-server@rtfm.mit.edu service. It is by no means a requirement,
merely supplied as a convenience for FAQ posters who choose to make
use of it. If you switch from using the faq-server service to posting
yourself, all we ask is that you make doubly sure that you get all the
headers right using whatever local news software you have available.
Also, note that there are other methods of automated posting that
don't involve the faq-server@rtfm.mit.edu service. The post_faq and
auto-faq programs are listed in the *.answers submission guidelines; I
think there are others as well.
--
Ping Huang <pshuang@alum.mit.edu>; info: http://web.mit.edu/pshuang/.plan
Disclaimer: unless explicitly otherwise stated, my
statements represent my personal viewpoints only.
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