Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!husc6!cmcl2!nrl-cmf!ukma!david From: david@ms.uky.edu (David Herron -- One of the vertebrae) Newsgroups: news.misc Subject: Re: Wish List re: Crossposting Message-ID: <9297@e.ms.uky.edu> Date: 16 May 88 22:43:25 GMT References: <439@bacchus.DEC.COM> <52859@sun.uucp> <9879@agate.BERKELEY.EDU> <6075@sigi.Colorado.EDU> <1107@mcgill-vision.UUCP> Reply-To: david@ms.uky.edu (David Herron -- One of the vertebrae) Organization: U of Kentucky, Mathematical Sciences Lines: 25 >>> Don't allow a user to post to a group unless the group is currently >>> marked as subscribed to in the user's .newsrc file. There's been a number of times when I've been requesting some information, the answer to which could have been found in any of a number of groups, some of which I don't read and have no interest in reading. But I still want this information. What I do is cross-post to everywhere applicable, point out that I don't read a particular group, and that responses should be mailed. I really think that this debate falls under the same sort of category as getting rn to be totally quiet about what articles it's killing as it enters a newsgroup. i.e. an almost religious matter relating to personal preferences. (:-) to Chuq) Seriously, I've never understood why some people are so violently opposed to cross-posting. Only rarely does it get out of hand, and it's a useful feature to have. -- <---- David Herron -- The E-Mail guy <---- or: {rutgers,uunet,cbosgd}!ukma!david, david@UKMA.BITNET <---- <---- Goodbye RAH.