Re: FAQs and crossposting policies

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Kent Landfield (kent@landfield.com)
Wed, 5 Feb 1997 09:27:11 -0600 (CST)

# Something like this might be a good idea, but where do we send it?
# I suggest that we really honestly ought to do some fact-finding,
# and that means we ought to send a letter to pretty much every large
# site and major forwarding site we can find.

Are we looking to survey all major ISPs, the Top 1000 list... ?

# Kent's draft doesn't seem to be phrased quite right for that; it sort
# of implies that we think the recipient already is doing something we
# don't like, whereas really we are going to have to send it out to a
# lot of sites we haven't a clue about.

What I did was scribble a draft based on a target, a specific site that
we suspected was doing something that would reduce our benefit to their
readers.

What we need to do is first to decide what our goal is. Is it to gather
information ? Is it to convince them they need to change ? Is it
informational for them as how they can help us at their location without
interferring with anti-spamming measures currently inplace ?

These are totally different "tones" and outcomes so please don't say
"all the above".

Again, we need to decide what we expect to achieve before we do anything.
Remember, quite a few admins out there may not have given this much
thought and we may be alerting them to think hard about it. That can be
a benefit or a problem.

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