Re: FAQs and crossposting policies

lfirrantello@BIX.com
Tue, 04 Feb 1997 17:32:38 -0500 (EST)

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>lfirrantello@BIX.com writes:
>> Since it has been put forth on a public forum, I can confirm that AT&T
>> Worldnet has indicated that it has a policy of not propagating posts
>> crossposted to >5 newsgroups. Reliable sources (I am unable to disclose)
>> have indicated that a number of other major feeder sites have similar no
>> propagation rules in place or being implemented.
>
>Youch! This is *far* worse than a local change in expiration policy,
>because it can prevent a crossposted FAQ from even getting to other parts
>of the net, whether they agree with your expiration policy or not.
>
My corespondence with AT&T was unclear on whether it was filtering feeds.
It was clear that ATT was filtering what went out from its servers.

Again I CANNOT get any confirmations about AT&T policies to filter the
incoming feed before the pass it on.

However there is a feeder site mentioned either in this list or the spam
list (the *.zorch.*com one) that does filter its feed before sending it on.

--Mick Brown (lfirrantello@bix.com)

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