Replied: Sat, 19 Oct 1996 17:33:55 EDT Replied: "Carl Symborski " From carl@umd5.umd.edu Tue Oct 1 15:10:33 1996 Received: from MIT.EDU (PACIFIC-CARRIER-ANNEX.MIT.EDU [18.69.0.28]) by bloom-picayune.MIT.EDU (8.6.13/2.3JIK) with SMTP id PAA03809; Tue, 1 Oct 1996 15:10:27 -0400 Received: from liver.csc.umd.edu by MIT.EDU with SMTP id AA28396; Tue, 1 Oct 96 15:08:59 EDT Received: from tracy.umd.edu (tracy.umd.edu [128.8.10.51]) by liver.csc.umd.edu(8.6.13/95Sep13) with ESMTP id PAA17425; Tue, 1 Oct 1996 15:08:52 -0400 Received: by tracy.umd.edu id PAA01936; Tue, 1 Oct 1996 15:08:47 -0400 Date: Tue, 1 Oct 1996 15:08:46 -0400 (EDT) From: Carl Symborski X-Sender: carl@tracy.umd.edu To: news-answers-request@MIT.EDU Cc: Carl Symborski Subject: Re: [news.answers] comp.dcom.cell-relay FAQ: ATM, SMDS, and related , technologies (part 1/2) (fwd) Message-Id: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII On Tue, 1 Oct 1996 pgreene@mit.edu wrote: > [This message was generated semi-automatically.] > > What's the current status of the posting > "comp.dcom.cell-relay FAQ: ATM, SMDS, and related technologies (part 1/2)" > (and the other parts)? > The records which comprise the List of Periodic Informational > Postings, which we try to keep updated, that it should be posted > every two months, > but as far as we can tell, it hasn't been posted since > 4 Dec 1995. Could you please let us know what's up? > Yup your records are correct. Since that time I have been maintaining the FAQ as a collection of WEB pages. My intention is to tackle the conversion back to ASCII and post as a regular text FAQ. > Note that we're not trying to pressure you into posting it or anything > like that; that's certainly not our prerogative. We're just trying to > verify that it's is still an active posting so that we can keep our > records up-to-date. > Is there a movement toward non-ASCII FAQ's to have a similar status as the traditional ASCII text FAQs? Would it be possible in the future for some folks to maintain WEB FAQs and maybe post periodically a ASCII FAQ containing a pointer to the WEB version as a reminder? I pose this as a question since the ASCII FAQ would not infact be a FAQ at all rather just a pointer to where to find the WEB FAQ. Thoughts? comments? > Thanks! > > - Pam Greene > one of the *.answers moderators, news-answers-request@mit.edu > >