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From: bnews@nixpbe.UUCP (Martin Boening)
Newsgroups: news.newusers.questions
Subject: Re: cross posting
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Date: 9 Aug 89 05:22:45 GMT
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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.
Postnews will take care of that for you, by prompting for newsgroups
with a '>' prompt until you answer that with a simple carriage return
(meaning 'end-of-list'). All the newsgroups you specified will get
crossposted to. I think the first one is the group to contain the
actual article, all the others only get links. If you use a newsreader
that doesn't give you the chance to specify a bunch of newsgroups,
you can always edit the header when in the editor. Edit the line
'Newsgroups.' to contain a list of all groups you want to post to.
I think the list is space separated but don't nail me on that one.


So, I hope this answers your question.

Martin
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