Replied: Sat, 07 Sep 1996 18:29:24 EDT Replied: "rn@dnrc.bell-labs.com " From rn@dnrc.bell-labs.com Fri Sep 6 19:40:45 1996 Received: from MIT.EDU (SOUTH-STATION-ANNEX.MIT.EDU [18.72.1.2]) by bloom-picayune.MIT.EDU (8.6.13/2.3JIK) with SMTP id TAA08279; Fri, 6 Sep 1996 19:40:45 -0400 From: rn@dnrc.bell-labs.com Received: from cbgw3.lucent.com by MIT.EDU with SMTP id AA02236; Fri, 6 Sep 96 19:40:04 EDT Received: from couch.dnrc.bell-labs.com by cbig3.att.att.com (SMI-8.6/EMS-1.2 sol2) id TAA06267; Fri, 6 Sep 1996 19:33:36 -0400 Received: (from rn@localhost) by couch.dnrc.bell-labs.com (8.7.5/8.7.3) id TAA15453; Fri, 6 Sep 1996 19:39:57 -0400 (EDT) Original-From: "ravi narayan" Message-Id: <9609061939.ZM15451@couch.dnrc.bell-labs.com> Date: Fri, 6 Sep 1996 19:39:57 -0400 In-Reply-To: emhavens@MIT.EDU "Re: header changes to rec.motorcycles faq[s]" (Sep 6, 4:48pm) References: <9609062048.AA21897@portnoy.MIT.EDU> Sender: rn@dnrc.bell-labs.com (Ravi Narayan) Reply-To: rn@dnrc.bell-labs.com X-Tra: Everything Including Chaos Is Predestined X-Url: http://vger.rutgers.edu/~ravi X-Uri: http://vger.rutgers.edu/~ravi X-Mailer: Z-Mail (3.2.1 10oct95) To: news-answers-request@MIT.EDU Subject: Re: header changes to rec.motorcycles faq[s] Cc: emhavens@MIT.EDU Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii On Sep 6, 4:48pm, emhavens@MIT.EDU wrote: > > By putting the little carrots ("<" or ">") in from of the header lines, > your FAQ has not been archived at all. You should take out all > instances of the carrots at the beginnings of header lines or it will > never get archived. The carrots cause the faq archiver to think that > the following line is a comment and should be ignored. > hi emily, thanks for the response. i think my message to you folks was confusing. the carets that were in my header change message were there to highlight what was old and what was new. thats not the way i post the faq. in my message to you re: header change, i said: ----- included message ----- the following permanent header changes will be made to the rec.motorcycles faq part 1 through 6, the internet motorcycle resources appendix to the rec.motorcycles faq, and the beginner motorcycle info periodic post faq: old header: prefixed by ">". new header: prefixed by "<". > From: rn@research.att.com (ravi narayan) < From: rn@bell-labs.com (ravi narayan) > Reply-To: rn@research.att.com < Reply-To: rn@bell-labs.com ----------------------------- what i meant is: OLD header: From: rn@research.att.com (ravi narayan) NEW header: From: rn@bell-labs.com (ravi narayan) OLD header: Reply-To: rn@research.att.com NEW header: Reply-To: rn@bell-labs.com i used the carets to mimic 'diff' output of the headers. they are not really there in my faq posts to the newsgroup. -- ravi -- man is, after all, merely an ape with an attitude. - from "arrow of the blue skinned god", jonah blank