Re: permitted cross-posting for genuine FAQs

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Pamela Greene (pgreene@optics.rochester.edu)
Tue, 10 Mar 1998 14:11:35 -0500 (EST)


Uri Raz wrote:

> How about simply not counting any of the *.answers newsgroups in
> the BI calculations ?

I don't think any FAQs violate a BI standard, but not all systems are
using BI. Many appear to be using the simpler standard of "less than
N newsgroups," which does catch lots of FAQs.

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