Re: Berserk alternative FAQ : things may not be _that_ desperate...

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>wrinkle in the new group proposal guidelines. When a newsgroup
>is discovered to have two or more competing FAQ lists or other
>PIP's, and when the animosity level has reached the point that
>one side has accused another's FAQ list of being so inaccurate or
>dangerous that it should not receive news.answers approval, the
>moderators could require that *all* postings approved for that
>newsgroup henceforth begin with a disclaimer of the form:
>
> "There are competing FAQ lists for this newsgroup, not all
> of them in agreement with this one. The other ones may be
> found at..."
>
>At that point, if any of the competing FAQ list maintainers
>refused to properly include the disclaimer or to accurately list
>the locations of the opposing lists, news.answers approval could
>be denied in an objective way.

Hmm.... Been there, done that. My FAQ states that...
" there is no such thing as an "official FAQ" in an unmoderated
newsgroup. Anybody is welcome to write one." Moreover, Sergei
Senin's page that mirrors my FAQ also lists the "alternative"
FAQ and the "even more alternative" FUQ:

http://www.ee.port.ac.uk/~ss-www/rus_www_abroad/usenet_irc.html

>...an element of King Solomon's solution here: often
>(perhaps even usually), the more honest and ethical of the
>combatants in such disputes are the more willing to acknowledge
>the existence of those who disagree with them. It would be the
>incorrigible, immoderate, intolerant disputants who would
>probably attempt to flout the "equal time" rule, and so have
>their approval removed.

... and it would be the honest and ethical who would be FAQ-bombed
into oblivion awaiting for the powers that be to remove their
blessing from the Evil Ones.

But of course I overreacted - mostly because I also got 200 K of
garbage in my mailbox. Iatskovski is a pest, but not reason enough
to demand that the news.answers folks lose their hard-won impartiality.

P.V.

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