Re: FAQs and Crossposting
Chris Lewis (clewis@ferret.ocunix.on.ca)
Tue, 4 Feb 1997 21:59:42 -0500
On Jan 29, 6:19, Gordon Fecyk wrote:
} Subject: Re: FAQs and Crossposting
} On 3 Feb 1997 21:57 -0800 (-1300), FAQ Maintainers wrote to me:
}
} Regarding:
} > -> FAQs and crossposting policies
} > by Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
}
} 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=
Speaking as one of the people who wrote the stuff you saw in
news.admin.*, you're right. We'd very much love to see FAQs being able
to be cross-posted as much as appropriate, but the spam problem is
becoming so severe, that automated cross-posting limits (as low as _5_
at some sites) are unfortunately necessary.
As such, I would recommend FAQ posters needing to hit more than, say, 8,
should break it into more than one cross-posting. But, _please_, don't
unipost it (one group per posting).
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