n.g.boalch@durham.ac.uk wrote at Mon, 07 May 2001 09:36:26 BST:
> If she's not, I'm not sure exactly what approach would be
> taken. Our rules suggest that we can take action to declare a FAQ
> dead if it has not been posted for a set period of time (related to
> its posting frequency) and we are unable to contact the maintainer
> to confirm its status. However, I'll have to leave a more senior
> moderator to explain what might happen if a maintainer refuses to
> have his/her FAQ declared dead despite its abandonment. All in all
> I suggest we cross that bridge as and when we come to it.
Where we are able to contact the old FAQ maintainer but are unable to
get confirmation from him/her that a new group can post with the old
archive names, I would be inclined to make the judgment call that it's
most expedient to ask the new folks to use slightly different archive
names. It's not hard to come up with something reasonable. You could
even explicitly add "new-" to some path component of the archive
name(s) of the new FAQs, thus making it explicitly clear that these
are different from the old ones.
(In theory, adding "new-" could result in an ever-continuing need to
invent further prefixes, sort of like what happened with VHF [very
high frequency], UHF [ultra-high frequency], etc. But we can cross
that bridge when we come to it, and if Usenet and FAQs survive long
enough for the rec.arts.bodyart newsgroup to need "newer-" and
"even-newer-" and "extreme-new-" generations of FAQs, perhaps that's a
good thing to be celebrated, and not a problem to be solved per se.)
--
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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