Replied: Mon, 21 Oct 1996 10:49:54 EDT
Replied: "Matt Messina <messina@umich.edu> "
From messina@engin.umich.edu	 Thu Oct  3 11:03:05 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 LAA13548; Thu, 3 Oct 1996 11:03:04 -0400
Received: from pow.engin.umich.edu by MIT.EDU with SMTP
	id AA05591; Thu, 3 Oct 96 11:02:04 EDT
Received: (from messina@localhost) by pow.engin.umich.edu (8.7.5/8.7.3/a1) id LAA09012; Thu, 3 Oct 1996 11:01:42 -0400 (EDT)
Date: Thu, 3 Oct 1996 11:01:42 -0400 (EDT)
From: Matt Messina <messina@umich.edu>
X-Sender: messina@pow.engin.umich.edu
To: news-answers-request@MIT.EDU
Subject: Re: [news.answers] alt.tv.frasier FAQ
In-Reply-To: <199610030216.WAA12063@bloom-picayune.MIT.EDU>
Message-Id: <Pine.SOL.3.91.961003104631.8847B-100000@pow.engin.umich.edu>
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII

pgreene@mit.edu wrote:
> What's the current status of the posting
> "alt.tv.frasier FAQ" 

I have resumed posting the alt.tv.frasier FAQ and plan to do so monthly.

> monthly,
> but as far as we can tell, it hasn't been posted since
> 29 Sep 1996.  Could you please let us know what's up?

I understand why this might be troubling.  It was 4 days ago. :-)

Let me guess, you didn't implement mutual exclusion in your scripts to
weed out obsolete postings?  After all, what are the chances that there
will be an update between when you make the list of possible obseletes and
check for their date?  Apparently finite. 
-- 
Matt Messina
messina@umich.edu

