Top Document: FAQs: A Suggested Minimal Digest Format Previous Document: 2. Table of Contents Next Document: 4. What's a Section, and How is it Formatted? Most FAQs lend themselves to a format like: <news headers> <news.answers required headers if the FAQ is registered> <title and author> <section> <section> <section> <section> While FAQs aren't always lists of questions and answers, they usually have "sections" of text -- whether they be sets of lists, individual Q&A's, groups of Q&A, textual sections, whatever. The digest format is all about how these sections should be delimited for automatic parsing. Note that this FAQ doesn't attempt to explain the news headers and news.answers subheaders. For this, you should really consult the FAQs on how to create news.answers postings. It's worth noting a few things here. You should use Expires/Supersedes to manage the deletion of previous copies of your FAQ. It is also a very good idea to use References: lines to link the parts of multi-part FAQs together so that they remain together with Usenet news readers. Top Document: FAQs: A Suggested Minimal Digest Format Previous Document: 2. Table of Contents Next Document: 4. What's a Section, and How is it Formatted? Single Page [ Usenet FAQs | Web FAQs | Documents | RFC Index ] Send corrections/additions to the FAQ Maintainer: digfaq@ferret.ocunix.on.ca (Digest FAQ commentary reception)
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