regarding Distribution: de: there is no such distribution for much
the same reason that news, comp, sci, alt.my.head.hurts are no valid
distributions: They do not bring additional discrimination information
and would only clutter up the Distribution section of sys/newsfeeds.
German-language postings to mainstream groups are decidedly
discouraged (ie you get flamed a lot), and crosspostings
between de.* and non-de.* are declared undesirable (because of the
difficulty to stop a thread - or get ppl edit the newsgroups line).
I certainly would live well with posting to de.answers and not
news.answers, thus restricting the FAQs to ppl who want German-language
news.
Another point:
I see the same problem with eg people who think that alt.sex is a
bunch of sinners and who would rather have their sites without.
Will you then introduce a distribution alt.sex as well, so that people
can weed out FAQs they think amoral ?
I would suggest to carry a !news.answers in the requested newsgroups
section, but have the group in active as usual; thus you only get FAQs
to groups you want. And if you _ask_ for all the FAQs on Usenet, well,
you get them, including the rec.food.veg FAQ even if you can't stand
broccoli.
> Since there is so much ingrained resistance to a 'de' distribution, how
> about tagging German-language FAQs with a distribution 'deutsch'? Then
> we have an easily-extendable way to label such things... 'deutsch',
> 'espanol', etc., as the need arises... without dragging country-specific
> hierarchies and distributions into it.
In the long run a Language: header might proove useful.
> Remember, it is perfectly legal to have more than one distribution on a
> line - for example, dc-local posts are often tagged with 'md dc va' to
> show that they are relevant to the Maryland and Virginia suburbs as well
> as to Washington DC.
Let me stress again that my FAQ is mostly not country specific: how to
get a brake to work ok on a bike is not dependant on wether you're
in California or Germany, and one of the ppl responsible for the contents
of the de.rec.fahrrad FAQ is living in Sweden.
regards,
spz
-- spz@serpens.rhein.de (S.P.Zeidler)
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