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From: ben@idsnh.UUCP (Ben Smith)
Newsgroups: news.misc
Subject: Re: Wish List re: Crossposting
Message-ID: <20@idsnh.UUCP>
Date: 13 May 88 02:09:12 GMT
References: <3938@gryphon.CTS.COM> <439@bacchus.DEC.COM> <52859@sun.uucp>
Reply-To: ben@.UUCP (Ben Smith)
Organization: Integrated Decision Systems, Inc. - NH
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In article <52859@sun.uucp> chuq@sun.UUCP (Chuq Von Rospach) writes:

>o restrict cross-posting across top-level domains. 

I often find that cross posting across top-level domains is all that
I need.  For example, an article about compiling nethack on xenix
would be posted to comp.unix.xenix rec.games.hack.  You don't mean to
prevent this, do you?

>o Restrict cross-posting up the name-space.

On this, I agree.

>o Force a followup-to on cross postings. ...
>	            ...         line sending followups only to the first
>                                                      ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>	group in the Newsgroups: line

This is excellent.
-ben