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From: ostroff@Oswego.EDU (Boyd Ostroff)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc,comp.sys.mac.apps
Subject: Re: Suggestion against multiple postings
Message-ID: <1990Jul30.222542.8724@oswego.Oswego.EDU>
Date: 30 Jul 90 22:25:42 GMT
References: <1990Jul29.232510.17562@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu>
Reply-To: ostroff@oswego.Oswego.EDU (Boyd Ostroff)
Followup-To: comp.sys.mac.misc
Organization: Instructional Computing Center, SUNY at Oswego, Oswego, NY
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In article <1990Jul29.232510.17562@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu> kyt@cunixd.cc.columbia.edu (Kok Yong Tan) writes:
>This is not a flame but merely a suggestion.  I know that to get a response,
>one has to post to multiple newsgroups especially for topics which are
>difficult to classify.
:
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>Comments, anyone?  Is there a better way?

First of all, I notice that you cross-posted your article (-: I am directing
followups to comp.sys.mac.misc :-). 

If your news software is properly setup there really shouldn't be much
of a problem cross-posting to several groups.  An "Xref: " header line
will prevent you from seeing an article you've already read (or junked)
in another newsgroup.  My personal "pet peeve" is not with cross-posting,
but with people who actually post the same article multiple times to 
different newsgroups.  This actually generates separate files in each
news directory, whereas crossposting only creates links to the same file.

I would make a few suggestions:

1. If you want your article to appear in more than one newsgroup, do it
by editing the "Newsgroups:" header line.  Just list the groups you
want separated by commas.  DO NOT separately post the same article
to different newsgroups; this is a waste of net bandwidth and disk space.

2. If you followup to an article which was crossposted to a bunch of
groups, edit the "Followup To:" header line so that future followups
will all be directed to one group.

3. If you keep seeing the same cross-posted articles in different groups
check with your news administrator.  Older versions of the news software
did not handle cross-referencing; you made need to install the "xref patch".

4. Every now and then read the periodic articles posted in 
"news.announce.newusers" that describe proper ettiquette and
procedure for posting to USENET.  Most of us can use a refresher course
here... :-) 

Just a few thoughts on the subject.

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