According to Nick Boalch, the various FAQ-related FAQs are posted
regularly to news:news.answers, news:alt.answers, news:rec.answers, etc.
I'm on AT&T, and I've not seen them for years. Talking to people on
other ISPs, they apparently don't see them either.
I've tried to get info out of AT&T, but the "customer service" people
have never heard of "news", and keep talking about web sites!
The problem apparently is that AT&T throttles cross-posting, rejecting
any article posted to more than 4 groups at once (this has apparently
become an internet standard). I suspect that this is true of many
ISPs. The FAQ-faqs go to news.answers, alt.answers, rec.answers,
sci.answers, etc., for a total of 8!
I'm not sure how to proceed on this, but suggest that the "rules" be
modified to exempt the *.answers newsgroups from the "no more than 4
crossposts" rule (i.e., not count them toward crossposting).
My faq goes to rec.models.scale,rec.models.rc.water,rec.answers, and
news.answers. I'm right there at the limit, and fear to post to another
group, such as alt.answers.
Thoughts?
John Kopf
(while we're at it, it would be useful if the ISPs retained the
*.answers groups for at least a month - AT&T keeps articles for 1 week!)
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