Re: FAQ postings mistaken for Supersedes (HipCrime) attacks?

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Michael Paul Johnson (mpj@ebible.org)
Sun, 25 Oct 1998 12:24:03 -0700


At 07:38 AM 10/25/98 -0500, Laura Burchard wrote:
>At 03:00 AM 10/23/98 -0400, Peter_Kappesser@promail.com wrote:
>>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."
>
>My question is, is there anyone who is still keeping extra long expires
>(longer than a month) in the *.answers groups? I haven't been using
>Supercede for my FAQ (posted monthly) which is crossposted to alt.answers
>and news.answers. Is that bad form, am I likely to be occupying extra space
>on some server?

Actually, I don't use supercedes, but use expires headers that are timed to
expire about a day after the next posting is made (usually in a month, but
I do have one FAQ that I post weekly). The overlap is to take into account
that news propagation is not instant. I started doing this not because of
hipcrime, but because it was easier for me to program my autoposter. Some
servers honor the long expire time, and some don't. If a server honors the
long expiration time and is close to my posting hosts, then I may have two
copies of a FAQ available at once, but it is actually more likely that
there is a gap between postings. Either way, I don't worry about it too
much as the FAQs are also available at their home web sites all the time,
anyway, and nobody has ever complained to me about the short overlap.

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Michael Paul Johnson
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