# The established practice is clearly to use multiple URL: auxiliary
# headers.
#
# I went to http://www.faqs.org/faqs and used the "headers only" search
# for the word "URL". Bit of a brute force approach, but it worked. There
# are over 1400 postings with a URL header.
:) Smart thinking...
The concern for faqs.org isn't the conversion of the URL in the faq, it is
the index pages I generate here. For example. If you have more than one URL:
auxiliary header you get multiple links generated on the index pages.
Below is an example, a FAQ Home Page: (the first one encountered in the
file) and an Alternate Page: for the other URL: headers discovered.
de-newusers/dana-manual
Subject: <2001-04-29> Erlaeuterungen zur Einrichtung neuer Gruppen in de.*
Maintainer: faqs@roxel.ms.sub.org (Dirk Nimmich)
FAQ Home Page: http://www.afaik.de/usenet/faq/dana-manual/
Alternate Page: http://www.kirchwitz.de/~amk/dai/dana-manual
Last Posted: 16 Jan 2002 23:00:02 -0000
Last-modified: 2001-04-29
Posting-Frequency: weekly
# I counted multi-part FAQs as one, since in most cases the same usage
# applied to all parts. Had I counted all parts, the counts would have
# been about 40 to 10. (The one that uses the comma-delimited style is
# the 10-part palmtops/newton FAQ. And it does not start the continuation
# lines with whitespace, as would be required for real headers.)
The way the software works on faqs.org, a URL: header with comma separated
references will work but will be listed as
FAQ Home Page: http://ref1, http://ref2, ...
AS LONG AS IT IS ON ONE LINE. Continuation lines are not supported at
present. i.e.
URL: http://www.geocities.com/newtonresurrection/indexqa.html,
http://www.chuma.org/newton/faq/,
http://www.cat2.com/newton/Newton-FAQ/,
http://www.thisoldnewt.com/html/FAQ/,
http://www.guns-media.com/mirrors/newton/faq/,
http://www.splorp.com/newton/faq/
will produce a header of
FAQ Home Page: http://www.geocities.com/newtonresurrection/indexqa.html,
and nothing else on the index page.
# As far as Kent's scripts on faqs.org, it doesn't seem to matter. The
# scripts find anything that looks like a URL in the posting, be it
# header, auxiliary header, or text. In all cases that I examined, the
# URLs had been properly converted to links.
Inside the faqs it will not matter. Only on the index pages I generate
locally. And then it is not really a big deal. If you get it "wrong"
(such as a multi-line URL: header) you are sill assured of at least a
single reference listed.
If it's a concern, I can add multi-line URL support. Currently the only
definition of the line is in the news.answers guidelines posting and
it seems to indicate a single URL reference on each URL: header line.
Whatever is decided is fine with me...
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