Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 (Tek) 9/28/84 based on 9/17/84; site tektools.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!cbosgd!ulysses!mhuxr!mhuxt!houxm!vax135!cornell!uw-beaver!tektronix!tektools!jerryp 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 Article-I.D.: tektools.548 Posted: Tue Nov 12 11:02:41 1985 Date-Received: Thu, 14-Nov-85 08:00:32 EST References: <245@mit-eddie.UUCP> <136@vcvax1.UUCP> Reply-To: jerryp@tektools.UUCP (Jerry Peek) Followup-To: net.news.group Organization: Tektronix, Beaverton OR Lines: 29 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. --Jerry Peek, Tektronix, Inc. US Mail: MS 74-222, P.O. Box 500, Beaverton, OR 97077 uucp: {allegra,decvax,hplabs,ihnp4,ucbvax}!tektronix!tektools!jerryp CS,ARPAnet: jerryp%tektools@tektronix.csnet Phone: 503/627-1603