In message <Pine.LNX.4.30.0104031348500.9412-100000@kangapub.usask.ca>
Ru Igarashi <ru@nucleus.usask.ca> wrote:
[snip]
> I'm maintaining the anime music FAQ, and have considered adding
> the rec.arts.anime.info moderated news group to the Newsgroups:
> header. However, before I submit the change for approval, I wanted
> to find out if it would be ok with the moderator. As some folks
> already know, the moderator (Steve Pearl) has been unavailable for
> quite some time (I hear health reasons) and has some sort of
> automodding or someone is subbing for him. Regardless, the last
> two attempts to query the moderator have been fruitless.
[...]
> I don't want to end up stepping on toes, violating n.a. policy,
> or screwing up my FAQ posting frequency, in an attempt to change
> my distribution.
Since we have no control over approval for non *.answers groups, usual
*.answers policy on this is to approve the posting with the other moderated
groups in the Newsgroups line, but remind you to get approval to post to
those groups before you post your FAQ to *.answers.
This case is somewhat different, though; I would be inclined to manually
post your FAQ to rec.arts.anime.info to see if it passes the automoderation
scripts and, if it does, say so when you submit the change to n-a-request.
That way we can document the automoderation in the LoPIP in case the raai
moderator gets upset later on.
However, one of the more senior moderators might like to contradict me?
> 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 /will/ help you if your ISP refuses to let you post articles crossposted
to more than four groups, because it has no such restriction. However, your
FAQ still won't propagate to news servers using filters on incoming news to
discard articles posted to more than four groups, because it crossposts.
Cheers,
Nick
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artificial intelligence in the phone network, but you were out.
-- NTK, 5th January 2001
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