>===== Original Message From "John O. Kopf" <kopfj@worldnet.att.net> =====
>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?
Edward Reid will probably help you out any time now ;-)
Have you thought of using the faq-server at mit.edu to post your faq if you
want to post to one more NG?
But even so, IMHO, limiting the no. of newsgroups you can post to - even for
faqs - is a good thing.
It forces one to decide exactly which NGs are really revelant for the faq. ;-)
I really doubt that there can be that many faqs which can be of interest to
more
than 3 mainstream NGs. ;-)
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