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Re: [faq-maintainers] Need to "change the rules"...

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From: Kent Landfield (kent@faqs.org)
Date: Fri Dec 28 2001 - 19:23:36 CST

# 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.

Russ, you and I both know there is more best practices in that document
then protocol issues... ;) But I won't start that here. Yes a BCP would
be a good place for it. I was more focusing on getting it discussed on
the UseFor list. 

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