From: Henk P. Penning (henkp@cs.uu.nl)
Date: Fri Aug 09 2002 - 17:01:49 CDT
On Fri, 9 Aug 2002, Edward Reid wrote:
> Date: Fri, 9 Aug 2002 14:54:07 -0400
> From: Edward Reid < >
> To: FAQ maintainers < >
> Subject: Re: [faq-maintainers] never-posted "FAQ"
> Sender: " " < >
>
> At 11:23 AM -0400 8/9/02, David Alex Lamb wrote:
> >b) insisting that the webmaster post it once in a while to the
> > alt.usage.english newsgroup (in which case he'd need to reword it a
> >bit)
>
> I strongly advise that it be posted a few times (and then
> discontinued). RTFM and faqs.org are the best known archive sites but
> are far from the only ones -- as anyone who's ever googled their own
> FAQ knows. Most or all of these pick up postings from Usenet, rather
> than from the RTFM archive as faqs.org does.
Very true; please post just like any faq.
> It needs to be posted at least once to flush out the other copies. In a
> recent thread here, someone else pointed out that some of these other
> archives are relatively flaky and may not pick up every posting, so it
> should at least be posted several times over a period of a few months.
> This still won't flush them all, but it's a lot better than never
> posting it.
Hm, while cleaning up the Utrecht archive, I noticed that
rtfm has some peculiarities too. For instance
-- faqs not listed in the Lopip are in the rtfm archive:
rtfm:/pub/usenet-by-hierarchy/news/answers/whitewater-addr
rtfm:/pub/usenet-by-hierarchy/news/answers/verilog-faq
rtfm:/pub/usenet-by-hierarchy/news/answers/signature-faq
rtfm:/pub/usenet-by-hierarchy/news/answers/windows/winsock-faq
-- faqs listed in the Lopip are not in the usenet-by-hierarchy archive:
-- mail/sendmail/faq
Posted-By: auto-faq 3.3 (Perl 5.006)
Last-modified: July 20, 2002 [ <----------- ]
-- law/Copyright-FAQ/part[1-6]
-- tv/buffy-v-slayer.part1
so, even recent stuff is not on rtfm (or faqs.org).
Note that the sendmail faq is available in
ftp://rtfm.mit.edu/pub/usenet-by-group/comp.mail.misc/sendmail_FAQ
but not in
ftp://rtfm.mit.edu/pub/usenet-by-hierarchy/news/answers/mail/
These are just examples, there are probably many more.
Conclusion: for the flaky, usenet-sucking archive sites it is
a little difficult to determine if a faq is dead or alive.
> Edward Reid
regards
Henk Penning
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