> 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.
What's an "alpha-spam"?
> 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.
Yikes. Sounds like a good reason not to post to more that 10 groups.
(My Esperanto FAQ lists 9 groups, of which 3 are *.answers groups...)
Do any other major ISPs have similar restrictions?
-- Yves Bellefeuille Ottawa, Canada yan@storm.ca Francais / English / Esperanto