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[Jef Poskanzer]

In the referenced message, peter at hackercorp.com (Peter da Silva) wrote:
}OK, I'll start a FAQ for alt.sources.

You are not qualified to do this for at least two reasons.  One, you
are not on the Internet, so as you said your ability to verify
information in a timely fashion is crippled.  This is a minor point; if
there was no one else willing to do it, and if there were no other
reasons you shouldn't do it, then it would be fine.  But there are
others willing, and there are other reasons.  Specifically, you are not
impartial.

It's fine to have opinions, even wrong ones.  But a FAQ posting must
represent either objective facts or general consensus.  Your opinions
on the Archive-Name header are neither, and codifying them into
official rules, as you propose to do, would be an abuse of trust.

A FAQ posting for alt.sources is a good idea, which I have supported
for a long time.  But by your own words you are not the person to do
it.
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Jef

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