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JRS:  In article <373DA45A.2109E51@proscenia.clara.net> of Sun, 16 May
1999 21:42:11 in news:alt.org.scoutnet, Andrew Coulton <Andrew_Coulton@p
roscenia.clara.net> wrote:
>Falco wrote:
>
>> <snip>
>
>> 3. If you wish to let several different ngs know about it then post
>> individually to each and do not cross-post, it shows a lack of care for your
>> reader
>
>Actually, I had understood it was better to cross-post than post multiple
>separate copies, since if the msg is crossposted most newsreaders will mark it
>read in other group the reader subscribes to, preventing you having to read it
>multiple times. Or am I wrong?

You are correct.  Almost always, a single copy should be posted, but
only to relevant newsgroups.  Multiple posting to relevant newsgroups is
a waste of time and resources.


Excessive posting, to more newsgroups than is necessary, is an abuse of
the Net (and a Merkin custom); it is bad whether it is cross- or multi-.

Other than Net administration, where an article must be multi-cross-
posted to reach all necessary groups (in which it will be meta-on-
topic), the only justification of multi-posting is when an identical
message is thought to be relevant to newsgroups of such widely different
character that the follow-ups from some groups would be too off-topic
for others.  And then, it seems likely that it would be better to
rewrite the basic message to suit the different targets.


See, for example, item #14 of FAQNEWS1.TXT, in Timo Salmi's
ftp://garbo.uwasa.fi/pc/link/tsfaqp.zip 

rec.scouting removed from Newsgroups line; it should not exist, as it
was superseded long ago.
 
-- 
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