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Re: .next files

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From: Michael B. Smith
Date: Mon, 21 Aug 1995 02:23
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In article <19950818.7D32668.1201F@ccubb.com> devans@ccubb.com (David Evans) writes:
> On Thu 17-Aug-1995  7:16a, Michael B. Smith wrote:
> MS> Are you not aware of crossposting? You can specify multiple newsgroups on
> MS> the newsgroups header. Then the article has only one messageid, and only
> MS> consume diskspace once. The single messageid allows modern newsreaders to
> MS> only display it once, only consuming diskspace once has obvious benefits.

> Hmmm.. I am using the SMTPPost Utilties (which unless I have the name wrong--
> you wrote!) to post the files.  The documents are created within CNET.  No
> fancy "formatting" is done at all.

Yes, I wrote them. NNTPpost supports crossposting, of course.

Crossposting is not fancy. You do it like this:

Newsgroups: alt.sys.amiga.uucp,comp.sys.amiga.uucp,comp.sys.amiga.datacomm

pretty simple, eh?
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  //   Michael B. Smith
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