On Fri, 14 May 2004 13:38:56 -0700, Keith Keller
<kkeller-usenet@wombat.san-francisco.ca.us> wrote:

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>On 2004-05-14, Rich Grise <richardgrise@yahoo.com> wrote:
>> Just to prove a point - when a post is crossposted, it's only stored
>> on the sever once, and there are simply references in the headers.
>> It has to. It has only one message ID, duh.
>>
>> The point being that people bitch about crossposting, when there
>> are so many reasons why it's better.
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>Your point is really moot, since it's not bandwidth people dislike about
>crossposting, but crossposts to irrelevant newsgroups and/or excessive
>crossposting (like to 10 newsgroups). Oh, and not setting Followup-To.
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>- --keith

Proper crossposting is ONLY SEEN ONCE, with a good reader like Agent.

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