Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!utstat!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!crdgw1!crdgw1.ge.com!barnett From: barnett@crdgw1.crd.ge.com (Bruce G. Barnett) Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions Subject: Re: Frequently asked questions in these groups deserve a monthly posting Message-ID: <683@crdgw1.crd.ge.com> Date: 8 Jun 89 13:48:01 GMT References: <21089@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu> <810063@hpsemc.HP.COM> Sender: news@crdgw1.crd.ge.com Reply-To: barnett@crdgw1.crd.ge.com (Bruce G. Barnett) Organization: GE Corp. R & D, Schenectady, NY Lines: 16 In-reply-to: gph@hpsemc.HP.COM (Paul Houtz) In article <810063@hpsemc.HP.COM>, gph@hpsemc (Paul Houtz) writes: > It will be very > easy for someone new to the group who missed this discussion to miss the > summary and post a question that has already been asked. I would hope that the FAQ postings will have an expire period of 1 month, and that the news admins don't override the default expire. Assuming systems use the default expire period of two weeks, then 50% of the time the FAQ posting will be the first article the new reader sees. -- Bruce G. Barnett a.k.a. uunet!crdgw1.ge.com!barnett barnett@crdgw1.UUCP