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Re: [faq-maintainers] A little advice please

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From: Nick Boalch (n.g.boalch@durham.ac.uk)
Date: Sat Jun 16 2001 - 15:03:20 CDT


In message <v0422084eb7515a3cc3fa@[192.168.1.2]>
          Edward Reid <edward@paleo.org> wrote:
        [snip]
> You also claimed on June 14 that "FAQ's are considered 'dead' after
> three months" -- your exact words. You didn't mention this position in
> your message to faq-maintainers. You didn't give a reference for your
> claim and I don't know where you got that idea, but it wasn't from
> anyone who knows much about Usenet (and is honest anyway).

This is probably a slightly inaccurate reading of something in the *.answers
guidelines, namely that FAQs not posted for three months may be removed from
the archive by the cleanup scripts unless we're told that the posting
frequency is less often than that.

Cheers,
Nick

-- 
                                 Oh show me a home where the buffalo roam
                      And I'll show you a house full of cowshit
                                                     -- Jasper Carrott

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