Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!joyce!zodiac!charleen From: charleen@zodiac.ADS.COM (Charleen Bunjiovianna) Newsgroups: news.newusers.questions Subject: Re: cross posting Message-ID: <8829@zodiac.ADS.COM> Date: 16 Aug 89 23:25:24 GMT References: <2989@blake.acs.washington.edu> <1989Jul28.223042.4488@twwells.com> <6554@bunker.UUCP> <1055@clyde.Concordia.CA> <424@nixpbe.UUCP> <1202@abaa.UUCP> Sender: news@zodiac.ADS.COM Reply-To: charleen@ads.com (Charleen Bunjiovianna) Distribution: news.newusers.questions Organization: The Piranha Club Lines: 43 In article <1202@abaa.UUCP> esker@mars.UUCP (Lawrence Esker) writes: >In article <424@nixpbe.UUCP> bnews@nixpbe.UUCP (Martin Boening) writes: >>timl@maxwell.Concordia.CA ( TIM LAPIN ) writes: >> >>>Simple question: >>> How do you cross post? >> >>Simple answer. You don't, if it isn't absolutely necessary. If it is >>necessary, just specify a list of newsgroups in the Newsgroups. line. > >And why not? If a topic relates to more than one subject, it should be cross >posted. It does not use extra bandwidth. It invites both sides of an issue >to interact instead of all these one sided slams that we get. This is a >public network, not a group of independent newsgroup cliques. > >For example discussion of minix on the Amiga would go into comp.os.minix and >comp.sys.amiga. A presentation on the modern social behavior of men and >women in the 1990's as it effect the nuclear family would go into >soc.singles, soc.men, and soc.wowem. You forgot soc.couples, soc.feminism, soc.motss, and soc.partridge.in.a.pear.tree. I'm sure *they'll* all be interested in this fascinating but vague hypothetical discussion of yours. But admit it: you don't read the soc.* groups much, do you? Newusers: pay no attention to the man behind the curtain. Any discussion, such as the one Mr. Esker suggests, that is so unfocussed as to fall under the guidelines of a number of soc.* groups is likely to be pointless. Better to focus on a subset of the issues. You'll get more meaningful dialogue and annoy fewer people that way. There are very few articles that are acutely pertinent to more than one newsgroup, and if you think yours is, you're probably wrong. If you need help determining which newsgroup to post to, try the lists in news.announce.newusers. Charleen ..if you take this interpretation to mean that I support discrimination of stupid people -- you're absolutely right. They've got too many rights already. -- Matthew W. Daly