>You're assuming of course that ISPs *CARE* about Usenet. Several admins I
>dealt with (including the ones at my ISP) feel that it's a perk. This
>attitude was especially prevalent at Universities. Expenditure of
>equipment and man-hours on maintence of a widely derided medium isn't a
>high priority on the lists of many IS folks. If they see it as just a
>vehicle for spammers, then they'll axe the whole service, or put in limits
>like this.
You have a point.
>I have a problem too with your statement backing up large crossposted
>articles. If the topics were so close, then they shouldn't have been
>divided to begin with. People need to either post responsibly in a few
>groups, or Usenet needs not to subdivide itself until everything has to be
>crossposted to 39 groups for a message to be accurately relayed to those
>who should be informed.
I would point out that you're assuming that newsgroup splitting
is perfect - that it will match the needs of _all_ messages. It won't.
If, say, I wanted to post something on (inoffensive) comparisons between
AD&D, GURPS, and other RPGs, I'd probably want to crosspost it between
rec.games.frp.add (or whatever the precise spelling is), rec.games.frp.gurps,
and rec.games.frp.misc at the minimum. This fact doesn't mean that that
splitup shouldn't have been done; most messages can indeed be classified
into one of those groups. But some can't.
>I think it's up to the FAQ community to evolve here. Push FAQs to the web,
>and be prepared to have the way Usenet evolves upset some of the
>foundations.
I have considered whether or not I want to bother posting the FAQ
I've been working on so long to Usenet. I believe I will, ultimately, and
that I'll do it in such a way that it does get read - that's the point,
after all. If that requires posting it every 3 days because it's
crossposted to talk.politics.misc and ISPs have ridiculous expiration
policies, that will be annoying but I'll do it.
-Allen
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