>What this means is that a site which unsubscribes from news.answers
>may miss out on as much as 115 FAQ postings (although many of them
>will get transmitted to the site through the other newsgroups to which
>they're cross-posted).
>Why are there so many FAQs posted to just news.answers? Because the
>moderators of *.answers have never taken the significant amount of
>time that would be required to get all the FAQ maintainers who
>submitted to news.answers before *.answers were created to add the
>appropriate *.answers newsgroups to their Newsgroups lines. We've
>sent generic announcements to this list and we've pointed out the
>problem to specific maintainers when we've noticed it, but we haven't
>made a wide-scale effort to get all the FAQs up-to-speed.
Does your numbering scheme include 'those that have news.answers as their
only appropriate *.answers newsgroup'? I maintain one, er, two of these:
news-newusers-intro and the rn KILL file FAQ. (Which, btw, will undergo
major revisions when I get around to having time to do it.)
>Technically, one might argue that an FAQ which is not cross-posted to
>the appropriate *.answers groups is in violation of the charter of
>news.answers and should therefore not be approved for posting to the
>newsgroup. I don't know if I want to go that far, though.
I wouldn't want you to, excluding my own posts. That restricts the
information we in news.answers and *.answers make available, which defeats
the purpose. It can be strongly suggested that other newsgroups would be
appropriate, but I don't think you should go any farther than that.
(I say it defeats the purpose because I myself would simply shrug and not
post such a post to news.answers, if I were stubborn enough to not want
to post to the appropriate *.answers group in the first place. And that
means, of course, that we're not getting all periodic postings into
news.answers, which means we're not following our purpose, etc etc.)
Leanne
(news.newusers.questions weekly intro)
(rn KILL file FAQ)
(rec.arts.sf.* monthly introduction)
(alt.books.deryni FAQ, not yet cross-posted to news.answers and alt.answers)
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