FAQ postings mistaken for Supersedes (HipCrime) attacks?

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Peter_Kappesser@promail.com
Fri, 23 Oct 1998 03:00:07 -0400

I run auto-faq to post several FAQs by proxy for a number of authors to
certain alt. groups and to a private news hierarchy. Recently one of
the sysadmins redflagged a routine FAQ posting because it used the
Supersedes line (as they all have for many years now), thinking it a
possible instance of the "HipCrime" abuse in which legitimate articles
are superseded by postings of gibberish and spam.

One admin posted: "I submit for public discussion though that using
Supersedes these days might be counter productive. If those FAQ's are
posted less often then the average expire time of most servers, the
Supersedes is redundant and might actually cause the article to be
thrown away by servers who have gotten fed up with HipCrime and his
tricks."

Thoughts? My view is that simply dropping articles only because they
have Supersedes lines is an inappropriate response to the HipCrime
problem.

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