Re: Supersedes: header may be hazardous to your FAQ's health

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Lutz Prechelt (prechelt@ira.uka.de)
Thu, 30 Oct 1997 11:16:49 +0100

tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us said:
> the gist of it is that articles containing Supersedes: headers --- as
> most FAQs do --- may get dropped at sites that are running INND with a
> particular patch

I believe this problem is severe enough to justify a message
in news.announce.important.

I think either you, Tom, or someone from the news.answers
moderation team (i.e. someone sounding authoritative) should
post it.

It would be a pity if tons of folks around the world could
not see many (or most?) of the FAQs in news.answers.

Posting to news.announce.important (as opposed to posting
to news.admin.*) would signal ordinary users that they
have missed something in the past and should look into
news.answers again later.

Lutz

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