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.

Cheers!
Rich

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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.

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.

- --keith

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On Fri, 14 May 2004 13:38:56 -0700, Keith Keller
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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.
>
>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.
>
>- --keith

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

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"Rich Grise" <richardgrise@yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:MX9pc.195722$L31.113724@nwrddc01.gnilink.net. ..
> 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.
>
> Cheers!
> Rich
>

DAMN Butthook distress! I can't figure out how to look at a message ID,
other than
the above, which when I click on it, it opens my email sender. In the
response.

So I'm downloading the groups with slrnpull right now on my other computer.

Cheers!
Rich

On a sunny day (Fri, 14 May 2004 20:26:20 GMT) it happened Rich Grise
<richardgrise@yahoo.com> wrote in
<MX9pc.195722$L31.113724@nwrddc01.gnilink.net>:

>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.
>
>Cheers!
>Rich
>
Thats is why I build the option in my newsreader to crosspost to
all what was it 45000 groups.
have not used it yet.
Good for that chain letter sort of thing :-)
JP

Rich Grise <richardgrise@yahoo.com> says...

>Just to prove a point - when a post is crossposted, it's only stored
>on the sever once,

That's not the issue. In a world where people are sending DVDs over
the Internet, the difference in storage is lost in the noise.

Jim Thompson <thegreatone@example.com> says...

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

That's not the issue either. The issue is that crossposting tends
to make all newsgroups look alike. Rich Grise crossposted to
alt.os.linux.slackware and sci.electronics.design. The end result
will be two alt.os.linux.slackware users discussing slackware but
crossposting the enrire thread to sci.electronics.design, and six
sci.electronics.design regulars discussing Iraq and crossposting
the entire thread to alt.os.linux.slackware. Why not just get rid
of all newsgroups and have everyone post everything to misc.misc?

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Properly trimmed posts are appreciated no matter how many times they
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Than for a man to hear the song of fools.
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> Properly trimmed posts are appreciated no matter how many times they
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We were expecting you. However, you would have made a lot more sense
if you'd replied to one of the cross-posted messages. Considering the
present state of sci.electronics.design, they deserve you more than we
do over here.
Michael

"Why not just get rid of all newsgroups and have everyone post
everything to misc.misc?"


Couldn't there already be something like "alt.binaries.sex.misc.misc"?

(Head explodes...)


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