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From: kre@munnari.OZ (Robert Elz)
Newsgroups: net.news.b
Subject: Re: Problem with mod groups:  cross-posting doesn't work.
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Date: Tue, 22-Oct-85 10:33:41 EDT
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Summary: Obviously - the very nature of mod groups makes this essential.

John Gilmour (sun!gnu) complained that cross posting to mod
groups is "broken".  I would have thought that obvious, since
only the moderator can post to a mod group.

If your posting had been sent to net.internat, and then the
moderator of mod.std.c (or whichever) had posted it, it would
have ended up in two groups - as two separate postings, one
you made, and one from the moderator.

The correct thing to do, would be to ask the moderator to cross
post the article for you.  That is easy for a moderator to do.

Similarly, if something really belonged in two mod groups, the two
moderators could co-operate between them to post the article, so it
is only sent once (by one of the moderators) but approved by both.

Robert Elz		seismo!munnari!kre  kre%munnari.oz@seismo.css.gov