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From: kenchiu@phoenix.Princeton.EDU (Kenneth Chiu)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Cross posting (IPC) stuff to .tech?
Message-ID: <2081@phoenix.Princeton.EDU>
Date: 17 Mar 88 14:07:18 GMT
References: <7722@agate.BERKELEY.EDU> <2075@phoenix.Princeton.EDU> <7693@oberon.USC.EDU>
Reply-To: kenchiu@phoenix.Princeton.EDU (Kenneth Chiu)
Organization: Princeton University, NJ
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In article <7693@oberon.USC.EDU> papa@pollux.usc.edu (Marco Papa) writes:
>In article <2075@phoenix.Princeton.EDU| kenchiu@phoenix.Princeton.EDU (Kenneth Chiu) writes:
>|I would appreciate it very much if people would cross-post.  Why are
>|people objecting?  Is because they don't want .tech stuff cluttering
>|up comp.sys.amiga?  That's an interesting reversal of the original purpose of
>|having two newsgroups.
>
>One of the reasons to have a new newsgroup, is to DECREASE the waste of net 
>bandwidth. Cross-posting INCREASES the waste of net bandwidth.

Are you sure about this?  I thought an article is transmitted only once
regardless of how many newsgroups it's cross-posted to.  Also, the news
reader will recognize when you've already read an article, so it will be
skipped if already read (at least rn does).

Ken Chiu