Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!tank!eecae!abaa!esker
From: esker@abaa.uucp (Lawrence Esker)
Newsgroups: news.newusers.questions
Subject: Re: cross posting
Summary: Why not?
Message-ID: <1202@abaa.UUCP>
Date: 15 Aug 89 15:59:04 GMT
References: <2989@blake.acs.washington.edu> <1989Jul28.223042.4488@twwells.com> <6554@bunker.UUCP> <1055@clyde.Concordia.CA> <424@nixpbe.UUCP>
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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.  The newsreader prevents a user from
seeing an issue more than once if he/she happens to subscribe to more than
one newsgroup in the cross post.

Addmitidly, some do get carried away and cross post to groups that have no
relationship to the topic under discussion.  It would be very rude to cross
post an article praising the merits of the Amiga to comp.os.vms, comp.sys.mac,
comp.sys.ibm-pc, etc., etc.  Especially if it is one sided opinion without
any factual or technical mention of the machines cross posted to.

>I think the list is space separated but don't nail me on that one.

(Comma separated, not space.  Sorry, just a little tack :-) )

>Martin

Lawrence W. Esker
Definition: FROWN, a smile with a hangover.