Re: FAQs - to spam or not to spam

MIKEHOLLOWAY (Holloway@cris.com)
Thu, 6 Jun 1996 00:38:24 -0400 (EDT)

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On Wed, 5 Jun 1996, Stephen W. Thompson wrote:
>
> Interestingly enough, the same thing happened to me. In this case one
> of the newsgroups I included was one which was mirrored to a mailing list,
> for folks without access to news. It was these people who complained that
> my FAQ was filling their mailboxes.

That can be a serious problem folks on free services where disk space is
probably limited. What I was advised to do for my mirrored mail list was
put "FAQ" at
the front of the subject line and create a topic for my LISTSERV list
called FAQ. Then I set the TOPIC header to ALL, -FAQ. I was surprised to
find out though that everyone set to DIGEST was still receiving the FAQ.
Seems that the digest is compiled before the topics are sorted. The
people getting the digest don't seem to mind though.

Mike HOlloway
holloway@cris.com

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