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Re: [faq-maintainers] Q about posting to odd mod'd group

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From: Anthony Argyriou (anthony@alphageo.com)
Date: Wed Apr 04 2001 - 02:17:07 CDT


Ru Igarishu wrote:

>That brings me to an unrelated question: with some idiot ISPs
>having a 5-group-crosspost, or worse, limitation, should I try to
>keep my Newsgroups: header at 4 groups? I have 4 right now, and
>in the event that the r.a.a.info group is ok to post to, I can
>drop one of the others (r.a.a.misc). But I'm just wondering if
>those ISPs cause difficulties with FAQs, and if I should take
>that into consideration. I'm going to try to use the faq server
>to autopost, and I think I read using it gets around the problem
>(posts to individual groups?). True?

It gets around the problem because it's not using your ISP's filter on news
posts. Unless there are news servers that automatically kill multiply
cross-posted articles coming in from other news servers.

Anthony Argyriou
Unix _is_ user-friendly. It's just selective about its friends.

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