Re: News servers for FAQs?

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David Glasser (glasser@uscom.com)
Tue, 29 Dec 1998 14:17:10 -0500


>>>>>> "David" == David Glasser <glasser@uscom.com> writes:
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> David> Are there any public or semi-public news servers out there?
>
>Not that allow unauthenticated posting and will give you anything like
>good propagation; spammers and other net-abusers just *love* to find
>sites like that, so they quickly get aliased out at any site that cares
>about news quality.
>
>(Think about it: the reason such sites are open for posting is that their
>administrator is incompetent and/or they are running defective software.
>So why would you trust your FAQ to them?)

Yup. I do agree with that.

>Some options that remain:
>
> - mail2news gateways. At least the Demon one still allows Approved:
> headers (most others do not, due to abuse); but it doesn't allow
> Supersedes (also due to abuse).

I'll look into that.

> - the auto-poster at mit.edu

How exactly does this work? Do I give it the FAQ each month, or do I give
it to it once and then have no chance to change it?

> - buy an account at a subscription news service; some of the
> less-well-known ones like Randori may be cheaper than RemarQ
> (formerly Supernews), Newsguy, Newscene, Altopia, etc., but I have
> no idea of the relative quality. Places to avoid are
> News-Service.com, triton.net, newsfeeds.com, and realnews.net (all
> spammers or spammer-havens).

I'm on a no budget, but I'll try.

> - find someone who runs a news-server and ask them nicely for access

I've done that, but it didn't seem to work with post_faq; it complained
about a lack of the POST command.

--David Glasser

glasser@uscom.com



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