Newsgroups: alt.current-events.net-abuse
From: hoey@aic.nrl.navy.mil (Dan Hoey)
Date: 26 Feb 1995 23:48:48 GMT
Subject: Re: tronics spam in a.s.s.d and a.f.p

xt...@blaze.trentu.ca (Kate Gregory)

> ...Surely asking for the FAQ (even in a group like misc.kids where
> the FAQ's are literally never posted, though an index to them is
> posted every week) is by definition on topic.

No, asking for the FAQ is on topic only in news.newusers.questions, so
you can be told to look in news.answers, or on one of the archive sites.

Jumping into a newsgroup you know nothing about and asking for the FAQ
is rude, and not on topic (unless you are dealing with a newsgroup
whose topic is the dissemination FAQ lists).

Dan Hoey
Hoey@AIC.NRL.Navy.Mil