Re: FAQs and crossposting policies

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> Since the news.answers charter requires a minimum of three newsgroups
> (home group, home-group-hierarchy.answers, and news.answers), I presume
> that nearly all of the above are not approved FAQs, just random periodic
> postings included in the LoPIP. The news.answers FAQ itself would be
> an exception; are there others?

Isn't the news.answers FAQ also cross-posted to the other
<root>.answers newsgroups?

> If we decide to lobby newsadmins as Kent is suggesting, we should
> definitely use numbers that count only "approved FAQs", ie, news.answers
> postings, so as to make the point as strongly as possible.

I definitely agree that we should only include "official" FAQs
(as posted to news.answers) in our discussions with news admins
at various sites (although we could parenthetically mention other
useful periodic postings that might likewise be affected), and that
we should make them aware of the already pre-existing problems
created by some sites, and some of the policies of which we have
heard rumours of, and of course, their consequences as well.

I would like to encourage that explicit mention be made of
the side-effects of the anti-crossposting policies known to exist
or apparently under consideration, especially with regards to the
resulting consequences if the result is that FAQ Maintainers start
having to post *much* more frequently and/or post individually to
each newsgroup, instead of a proper cross-post.

Clearly, cross-posting is a Good Thing (tm), but you can have
too much of even a good thing. We need to encourage them to take a
more reasonable approach to the problem, lest they make the problem
that they're trying to solve worse than it already is.

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