} 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.
No registered FAQ violates BI 20. In order to hit BI 20 (over the 45
day window), you'd have to cross-post the same thing to 9 groups or more,
and issue it every week. Or, cross-post to 36 groups every two weeks.
This is more than sufficient for any FAQ, and no FAQ is close to it.
If someone's FAQ was being spam-cancelled, they'd hear about it.
Probably from me.
In my years as a spam canceller, the only "FAQ" that I ever encountered that
exceeded BI 20 was an unregistered, thinly veiled alpha-spam advertisement,
posted to 30 groups every week. That got placed under autocancel (and
the poster informed each time).
Propagation problems are probably one of two things:
- unstable Usenet systems and bad propagation
- explicit cross-posting limits that individual sites implement.
For example, worldnet.att.net rejects inbound postings with
more than 10 groups, and refuses local postings with more than
5.
Please don't be tempted to violate BI to get around individual site
restrictions. We can't make exceptions for FAQs, simply because
it's a "good cause". That's what Clarence Thomas IV said when
he spammed every group in creation with his religious diatribes.
And if we did, then the 800PHONESEX spammer (upwards of 50,000
spams per day) would just start calling his postings "800 sex
line FAQs".
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