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More info?)
On Tue, 30 Aug 2005 15:53:55 -0700, "Ken Blake"
<kblake@this.is.an.invalid.domain> wrote:
>Answered in another newsgroup. Please do not send the same
>message separately to more than one newsgroup (called
>multiposting). Doing so just fragments the thread, so someone who
>answers in one newsgroup doesn't get to see answers from others
>in another newsgroup. And for those who read all the newsgroups
>the message is multiposted to, they see the message multiple
>times instead of once (they would see it only once if you
>crossposted instead).
>
>If you must send the same message to more than one newsgroup,
>please do so by crossposting (but only to a *few* related
>newsgroups).
Hear, hear!
A good explanation of the issues (to save retyping this for this
Frequently Arising Situation) is at
http://smjg.port5.com/faqs/usenet/xpost.html
"What is the accepted way to share a message across multiple
newsgroups?"
A somewhat lengthier one is at
http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/usenet/xpost.html
"Why and how to crosspost".
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