Re: FAQs and crossposting policies

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Kent Landfield (kent@landfield.com)
Wed, 5 Feb 1997 09:15:23 -0600 (CST)

# I'd like to see more discussion on this, once this group really has a
# chance of understanding of how much spam these policies are trying to
# block, and whether trying to lift cross-posting limits will be undoing
# some of the hard-fought gains the anti-spam community has made.

In your opinion Chris, what would be an acceptable limit of crossposting
that FAQ authors should consider limiting themselves to ? I was under
the impression the limits were > 15. Sounds as if I'm mistaken.

[ Good suggestions deleted ]

# I have no problem with trying to
# remind administrators that the *.answers groups should be kept longer,
# the Expires trusted, and the technology exists to make this trivial on their
# servers.

Then instead of a letter that backs the admin into a defensive mood, maybe a
letter that describes how they can help us would be more appropriate.

# But increasing posting frequency (as someone else
# mentioned, in jest I believe) simply to bypass site decisions, is a big
# mistake.

Seconded.

While many of us understand first hand the problems of spamming and
excessive/massive crosspostings I think we need to understand the limits
being put in place and how those controls affect us. We have been taking
advantage of the news technology for the proper purposes. How do we avoid
getting lumped in with the trash ?

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