In article MSGID, Bill Gruber <[log in to unmask]> says:
 
>When you put new items into your filelist you can post something on your
>list which explains what these items are.  That way people doing searches
>will find your postings which refer them to the filelist.
 
FILELISTs that I've seen do this have a separate file for announcing
new files e.g., listname ANNOUNCE or listname INDEX or listname ARCHIVE.
 
Folks AFD to that file (or perhaps FUI).
 
Also, if file names are well-structured, wild-card notation can be
used in the filelist itself (entries start with a ">" and fn/ft have
an "*" where the generic part is).   Then users can AFD to the
full wild-card specification on some subset.
 
For an ideas, see the CCNEWS filelist.
 
/Pete ([log in to unmask])  --  co-owner  LDBASE-L, TQM-L, CPARK-L, et -L
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