On Sat, Jan 01, 2000 at 09:26:22AM -0800, Paul Bogrow wrote:
> On Sat, 1 Jan 2000, Ralf Döblitz wrote:
>
> > I had to modify the cleanfeed settings on my system as the flood of FAQs
> > from PENGUIN-LUST.MIT.EDU triggered cleanfeed's spam detector ("excessi-
> > ve supersedes"). This may have happened at other sites too, causing them
> > to drop FAQs until the newsadmin excluded the FAQ server from this
> > check.
>
> If this hypothesis is correct, while we may be able to lobby our local
> administrator to revise his spam criteria, is it likely that the only
> practical across-the-board solution is to change or disguise the name
> of the FAQ server itself?
Spreading the FAQ postings over the day (or several days) will avoid
triggering cleanfeed's threshold. After a look at cleanfeed's source it
seemes to me that the news-admin of penguin-lust has changed the path
entry from lower case to upper case. If they could be persuaded to
return to using the lowercase name (which is already exmpted by default
in cleanfeed as a well known system with automatic postings) the
problems should disappear, too.
Ralf
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