SUGGESTION for those who answer questions [was Problem...SunOS4.1.1]

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From: Spencer Greene
Date: Mon, 09 Mar 1992 19:43

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If you post a patch or an answer to someone's question which is likely to
come up again, or anything which is likely to make its way into a future
faq file, PLEASE set the Expires: field of the post to a date far enough
in the future to overlap with the next faq.

Probably a lot of people (including me) don't normally read this group but
search through it after encountering a problem.  I don't have disk space
to extend the expiry several weeks and archive thousands of people's 
questions; but I would like to keep answers on line, so I don't have to
post "Hey was there a patch for this and can someone send it to me?"

Alternatively, what does anyone think about splitting the group into
question and answer subgroups . . . then I could set the expiry on 
the answers group to 60 days and on questions 7 days (as now).

ideas?
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Subject: SUGGESTION for those who answer questions [was Problem...SunOS4.1.1]
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Date: Mon, 9 Mar 1992 19:43:17 GMT

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