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From: billp@bronze.UUCP (Bill Pfeifer)
Newsgroups: net.flame,net.followup
Subject: Re: Pet Peeve - Posting same article to several newsgroups
Message-ID: <803@bronze.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 4-Oct-83 12:45:46 EDT
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Posted: Tue Oct  4 12:45:46 1983
Date-Received: Fri, 7-Oct-83 06:00:18 EDT
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>>>  But why (too often?) do I see an article with the following heading:
>>>
>>>  Newsgroups: net.general,net.a,net.b,net.c,net.d,net.e,net.f,net.g,net.etc
>>>
>>>  Is it ever necessary to post the same article to three, four, or five 
>>>  newsgroups?  Most of us read more than one newsgroup, and for many,
>>>  there is often an intersection of these posted newsgroups.
>>>
>>>  Such multiple postings increase the number of articles transmitted
>>>  around the net, using up modem time, port time, and disk space.
     
That's a very common misconception.  If the article was posted once to multiple
groups, it is only transmitted once, and stored on disk only once.
There is a link to that file in each news directory corresponding to each
group.
If you read the news all in one session, you will see that article only once,
no matter how many groups it was posted to.  If you see it more than once,
you either got out of news by typing "q" and resumed later, or the author
repeatedly submitted the article, one group at a time.

My pet peeve is seeing the same article submitted to the same group twice
or thrice.  What usually happened is that the author posted the article and
immediately typed "news".  When the just posted article did not appear, s/he
assumed that it didn't make it and posted it again.  Just give the system
a little (or sometimes a lot of) time to enter the article into its files
before trying again!

	Bill Pfeifer
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