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In article <C3GH3A.M4q@wimsey.bc.ca> sl@wimsey.bc.ca (Stuart Lynne) writes:
>In article <1993Mar06.051200.10690@xenitec.on.ca> eah@xenitec.on.ca (Ed Hew) writes:

>>I'll repost the current information package, guidelines and application
>>form seperately, immediately following this.  They were last posted on
>>Feb 2nd, so it's been a month.  At any time, when in doubt, the current

>Don't forget to add archive headers and cross post to news.answers. Then
>it will be automatically rarchived, indexed, wais'ed and gopher'd all over
>the place.

Well, not quite automatic.  By cross-posting to news.answers, you're
actually making a request to Jonathan Kamens to allow you to continue
cross-posting to news.answers on your own.  Since it's cross-posted to
news.answers, it will be mailed to jik *only*, and won't appear *anywhere*
until Jonathan approves it.

Jonathan will "consider" the "request for registration", and reply with
an "Approved: " line for you to use from then on, so your subsequent
postings can go out normally via news without any intervention from him.

The "consideration" is mostly whether the various archive headers are
proper, and the archive name is "reasonable" - and he'll come up with
suggestions if appropriate.  In this particular case, I suspect Jonathan
won't have any comments at all and will simply approve it.  He'll want
to know how often it's posted (plus the title and newsgroups it's
posted to) so he can update the posted FAQ indexes.

If you put your own Approved line in, this won't happen, but everybody
will be rather annoyed, and Jonathan will probably issue a cancel for it.

The process isn't onerous, it's actually very easy.  And I highly
recommend doing it.  I'm just posting this so that people know what
the process is - I've been through it for the Email Survey, comp.text
and wiring FAQs.

Jonathan also provides an automated posting service, that permits you
to send your FAQ to his server, and have the server automatically post
it on the frequency you want - the server allows you to update your
FAQ any time you wish.  Or, you can use his post_faq software
(needs Perl), and automatically post it yourself complete with appropriate
Expires and Supersedes etc via cron job - which I am using for five
FAQs (only three appropriate for news.answers).

Jonathan has documentation on how all this works, which he'll send on
request.  The easiest thing to do is to post your FAQ to news.answers.
And pray that the moderated newsgroup forwarding stuff is working on your
system... ;-)
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