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From: jerryp@tektools.UUCP (Jerry Peek)
Newsgroups: net.news.group
Subject: Re: As long as we are taliking about rmgrouping ...
Message-ID: <548@tektools.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 12-Nov-85 11:02:41 EST
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Posted: Tue Nov 12 11:02:41 1985
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In article <547@felix.UUCP> bytebug@felix.UUCP (Roger L. Long) writes:
> ...Posting
> an article to multiple newsgroup only incurs additional cost to the net
> in causing followups to continue to be posted to multiple newsgroups, which
> can annoy people who feel the original posting or the followups have no
> business in *their* newsgroup.  It also means that more people are exposed
> to the original article, perhaps causing more people to followup on it.
> 
> Perhaps an answer to this would be to REQUIRE a "Followup-To" header
> line listing one newsgroup when an article is posted to multiple
> newsgroups.  This would require the author to choose what he thought
> was the most appropriate newsgroup to continue the bulk of the
> discussion.  Comments?

I agree with Roger's suggestion.  Posting to multiple newsgroups is a good way
to catch the attention of people on the net who may read only one of those
groups... and let them follow the discussion into another newsgroup.

A good example was a recent series of articles on Nicaragua.  The author
posted the first one to net.travel and net.politics... the rest went only to
net.politics.  Though I don't normally read net.politics, I did while the
Nicaragua articles were there... I used "rn" to search for just those articles
and junk the rest.

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