Re: FAQ (was: Re: Is aus.rail bad?)

["Dave Proctor" <daproc@spambait.ozemail.com.au>]

"Michael Kurkowski" <mk@netstra.com.au> wrote in message
8F52A48FCtelstraNews@vic.news.telstra.net">news:8F52A48FCtelstraNews@vic.news.telstra.net...
> Dave Proctor <daproc@spambait.ozemail.com.au> said:
>
> >> Fortnightly ought to be sufficient.
> >
> >Some ISP's have retention times of less than this (My first one when I
> >moved out here to Penrith was like this).
>
> If it's posted weekly, there is a bigger likelyhood that people will
> actually read it. As Dave Proctor states, some ISPs have article retention
> dates of less than the fortnightly goal stated above, some news s(w)ervers
> hold articles for less than a few days at best.
>
> I'd be happy to see any other comments on this. In the meantime, I will
> build a script tonight & test it (via appropriate test newsgroup) - May
> have something workable by the weekend (Sunday 0:00 sounds like a good
> posting time). If the frequency we conclude to here turns out to be too
> small or too large it will be a 5 second modification.

Sounds good to me. Those with servers with long retention periods can set up
a killfile entry for FAQ.

Dave