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Kent Landfield <kent@landfield.com> writes:

> This should be brought up in the usefor working group. Maybe we can get
> a paragraph in there that excludes the *.answers groups from this type
> of behavior. This way it _could_ become a standard NOT to do it to
> *.answers. Just a quick thought...

It's not a standards issue, it's a best practices issue. If the best
practices portions of the USEFOR disaster were already separated into a
BCP, there would be a great place to put this sort of thing, but it's
really not part of the protocol to dictate local filtering rules, let
alone exempt specific newsgroups by name.

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Russ Allbery (rra@stanford.edu)             <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
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