Re: permitted cross-posting for genuine FAQs

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Mike Dimmick (dimmicmj@aston.ac.uk)
Tue, 10 Mar 1998 16:42:27 +0000


>This is a classic example of the standard trust problem.
>
>You want a class of bona fide FAQs for which spam filters make
>exception from their cross-posting filter rules.
>
>How do you make these NewsPosts easy to recognize without making
>them easy to fake? [and how do you get News admins to know about
>them and process them appropriately?]

It's already there. Why else do we have the Approved: header?

I know that means a bit of work for the spam cancellers: anything posted
to news.answers should be cancelled if it doesn't have a variant of
'news-answers-request@MIT.EDU' in the approved header; if that does
appear in 'Approved:' in addition to at least one '*.answers' newsgroup,
the message should not be cancelled even if it exceeds some other
limitation.

I think the cancellers and writers of spam cancel software have to take
this into consideration. We use some of our valuable time maintaining
our FAQ documents; it's extremely annoying if the FAQ postings get
cancelled. The FAQ is there for a purpose.

-- 
Mike Dimmick