Replied: Sat, 14 Sep 1996 15:39:29 EDT
Replied: ""William R. Ward" <hermit@bayview.com> "
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Date: Fri, 13 Sep 1996 18:17:01 -0700
From: "William R. Ward" <hermit@bayview.com>
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To: news-answers-request@MIT.EDU
Subject: Re: ADMIN: FAQ for rec.boats.marketplace 
In-Reply-To: <199609132220.SAA14921@opus.MIT.EDU>
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	<199609132220.SAA14921@opus.MIT.EDU>

In article <199609132220.SAA14921@opus.MIT.EDU>, emhavens@MIT.EDU writes:

) Hello,
) First, all copies of the old FAQ have been removed, so you don't need to
) worry about that.  Second, your new Subject will not be a problem in our
) database, but it may create several copies of the file in the archive.
) A better idea might be to put a line in the Auxilliary header called
) Last-modified.  So, you could just put

) Last-modified: MM/DD/YY

) after the Posting-frequency line.  Anyway, let us know which one you
) want to do.

) Emily Havens
) one of the *.answers moderators
) news-answers-request@mit.edu

The reason for putting the last modified date on the Subject is to
make it easy for users to put in their kill files.  Sophisticated
users can probably figure out how to do it if it's in the message body
(i.e. auxiliary header) but I want to make it easy.

I thought I read somewhere that your system could record part of the
subject as being "fixed" and part as "dynamic" -- if so, I would like
to use that feature; the subjet I submitted would be the fixed
subject, and I could append other info and that would be dynamic.

--Bill Ward, moderator, rec.boats.marketplace.