On the first subject:
Most news servers seem to be operated as part of a business venture
for profit. If you purchase Internet services, vote with your dollars.
If enough customers leave the ISP because the newsserver isn't satisfying
their needs, the owners will get the message or a new ISP gets the
account. If there is enough demand for a service someone will fill
it.
Well that's my two cents worth on that subject. This next might be
how others find FAQs and select groups (proving cross-posting of
FAQs are needed).
When I first started using a full internet service I found the
news.answers group was chock full of good reading! I hit it everyday
so I didn't miss anything. I watched the newsgroups line and
requested the cross-posted groups (If the FAQ is good the group should
be great). I now have a news spool that automatically retrieves the
FAQs I want. The system runs a long expire with dupe checking. No, it
ain't reachable from the net (sorry, I am on a dial up account).
Now I have learned of the mit news.answers and other archives that I
frequent for info. Again if I find a FAQ that interests me the group
usually gets requested also. The FAQ gets added to the archiver. I
really like the Landfield.com site. Same process of watching where
the FAQ is cross-posted.
Now for my problem! About two months ago I received approval for the
Net-Tamer FAQ. I was told to change the archive line and to consider
the FAQ approved.
The problem is it never shows up in the archive. I changed servers.
Same problem! So I decided to use the Automatic post service at MIT.
Now that server tells me I don't have approval for that archive dir!
I sent a message to the address given and got a auto reply stating the
number of requests are over 900 and there is a two week backlog at
this time.
Is there anything else I should do or try?
Thanks,
Jeff
I've got a mind like a... a... what's that thing called?
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