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Article #37Re: .next files
From: Michael B. Smith
Date: Thu, 17 Aug 1995 11:16
Date: Thu, 17 Aug 1995 11:16
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In article <19950815.7CE8508.11EE0@ccubb.com> devans@ccubb.com (David Evans) writes: > On Mon 14-Aug-1995 5:45p, Michael B. Smith wrote: > > MS> This is group #6 you posted this in. How many did I miss? Do you realize > MS> how rude this was? > Actually, I posted it in 4 groups.. I did UUCP, NETWORKING, MISC, PROGRAMMING. > I didn't mean to be rude, but I wasn't sure exactly what topic it fell under. > UUCP seemed logical due to the fact that the '.next' was a "UUCP" feature. > However my question also pertained to CNET (not very UUCPish). Thats why I > chose a few other groups. > > Sorry if you considered it rude! It was in both UUCP groups, and also in datacomm. That's six. Are you not aware of crossposting? You can specify multiple newsgroups on the newsgroups header. Then the article has only one messageid, and only consume diskspace once. The single messageid allows modern newsreaders to only display it once, only consuming diskspace once has obvious benefits. -- // Michael B. Smith \X/ mbs@adastra.cvl.va.us
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!hearst.acc.Virginia.EDU!adastra!mbs Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.uucp From: mbs@adastra.cvl.va.us (Michael B. Smith) Subject: Re: .next files Distribution: world References: <19950815.7CE8508.11EE0@ccubb.com> X-NewsReader: GRn 3.0b8 June 4, 1995 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Message-ID: <mbs.405u@adastra.cvl.va.us> Date: Thu, 17 Aug 95 07:16:48 EDT Organization: Only if you insist...