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Phil can point to the aus.general FAQ and say that the crosspost 
limit is there in the charter for all to see.

As far as I can tell, Phil just writes anything he likes into the 
charter with no reference to anybody else.

The last _revised_ FAQ was released at the end of a long piece of 
flamage under the subject: Universal Declaration of Human Rights.

OK, a minor revision, but not exactly the right way to announce
changes to such an important document (the FAQ, not the UDHR).

Same goes for FAQ: creating a newsgroup in the aus.* hierarchy.

> Recently (as of late 1995), the practice of 'invading' newsgroups
> has become something of a problem for many groups. This most
> often takes the form of articles being crossposted to as many
> different and inappropriate groups as possible. The consequences
> of this can be severe - the crossposting magnifies the number of
> followup articles, and most posters are not aware that they are
> clogging unrelated newsgroups with their (usually inflammatory)
> responses. You may wish to consider this in your proposal. You
> may, for example, wish to limit crossposts to no more than some
> small number of other groups, with due notice given that articles
> that violate this may be cancelled.

I remember an article or two complaining about newsgroup 
invasion.

Was there any discussion about including a remedy (cancelling) in 
the aus.* FAQ, thus becoming part of the solemn charter, or did
Phil just write it up?


...Dave