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Re: What's your current project?
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Date: 
Sat, 3 Oct 1998 17:44:36 GMT
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On Sat, 3 Oct 1998 00:38:25 GMT, lehman@javanet.com (Todd Lehman)
wrote:

> Tom McDonald <rocketman@familyradio.com> writes:

> > Todd, since I know virtually nothing about servers (other than they serve
> > information), how do you keep the url of an FAQ persistent in/on an ng so that
> > people don't have to inquire as to its whereabouts? I realize that this could
> > easily be done on the lugnet.com/news/ page that displays the major groups, but
> > not everyone will see that page will they?

> The standard thing to do would be to post them periodically to the group
> they represent.

Additionally, this way you have a possibility of people actually
READING the FAQ. If it is is just there all the time -- the one time
it wil be in the message queue will be at the very beginning -- like
the Welcome to... and Terms of Use posts. And it will get marked read
just like them :)

Sarah Heacock



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(...) The standard thing to do would be to post them periodically to the group they represent. There is an 'Expires:' NNTP header for setting something to persist on the server for a long time, and a 'Supercedes:' header for posting a new message (...) (28 years ago, 3-Oct-98, to lugnet.admin.general)

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