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Gordon Fecyk wrote:
> I wondered if this FAQ cross-posting and expiration stuff could be
> circumvented by posting a separate copy (not crossposted) in the *.answers
> groups separately. Yes it'll add to the traffic (EMP-style) but only by a
> Breidbart Index of +1... could newsadmins tolerate that enough so that
> stuff in *.answers groups stays around longer?
>
> According to the stuff I read about in news.admin.* groups, for a single
> article to be cancellable, it would have to be cross-posted to some insane
> number of newsgroups (in order to exceed a BI of 20) and this is simply
> impossible because of limitations in current Usenet software. UUNET won't
> cancel an article just because it was cross-posted to 20 groups, and other
> filters based on the BI (or even the proposed BI2) shouldn't do that either=
> .
>
> If what I read about Netcom is true, they're far too extreme about it.
> Certainly far too extreme for anything posted in an *.answers group. But
> perhaps a temporary workaround would be a separate posting to the *.answers
> groups, if the additional traffic could be accepted for FAQs.
>
Tung-chiang Yang tcyang@netcom.com
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