From: Denis McKeon (DMckeon@swcp.com)
Date: Sat May 18 2002 - 11:09:45 CDT
In <p04330104b90c1d3415ae@[192.168.1.4]>,
Edward Reid < > wrote:
...
>"Expires" can be written referring only to a calendar. "Supersedes"
>requires finding the previous article and cutting and pasting the
>message ID (since retyping it is unreasonable). That makes Supersedes
>quite a bit more cumbersome to handle manually.
The auto-faq package: http://www.novia.net/~pschleck/auto-faq/
handles that nicely - keeps the previous M-ID in a file to insert in
the next post, and allows setting an expire time N days in the future.
I set an expires time of about 2.5 posting cycles in the future, so
a site that retains messages for a long time, and honors Expires
but not Supersedes should not have more than 3 copies at once -
that seems to me to be a good trade-off between auto-posting FAQs
and letting news server sites just cope with their own choices.
There is only so much one can control in a cooperative anarchy.
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