Re: FAQ cancellations.

Kent Landfield (kent@landfield.com)
Tue, 19 Nov 1996 09:19:04 -0600 (CST)

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#
# Taki Kogoma wrote:
# > Fortunately, the FAQ guidelines insist that followups be directed to a
# > single newsgroup.
#
# Pam Greene wrote:
# # Not the ones I know. I believe that all the examples show a single
# # newsgroup, but the *.answers guidelines only require that the
# # Followup-To: be valid and contain no *.answers newsgroups. I don't
# # know of any cases in which a maintainer includes more than two or
# # three groups, though I haven't done a comprehensive search.

RFC 1036 states:

-----------------
2.2.3. Followup-To

This line has the same format as "Newsgroups". If present, follow-
up messages are to be posted to the newsgroup or newsgroups listed
here. If this line is not present, follow-ups are posted to the
newsgroup or newsgroups listed in the "Newsgroups" line.

If the keyword poster is present, follow-up messages are not
permitted. The message should be mailed to the submitter of the
message via mail.
-----------------

As to what is the current *.answers practice...

1057 - Followup-To: poster
4 - Invalid Followup-To entries - include both poster and newsgroups

1984 - Followup-To: some newsgroup
- 1860 to a single newsgroup
- 70 to a two newsgroups
- 11 to a three newsgroups
- 16 to a four newsgroups
- 1 to a five newsgroups
- 4 to a six newsgroups
- 2 to a seven newsgroups
- 1 to a five newsgroups

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