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>>>>> On 5 Nov 92 17:46:22 GMT, sherwood@space.ualberta.ca (Sherwood
Botsford) said:
	sherwood> [argument about why cross-postings are a
        sherwood> nuisance to people who use NewsGrazer]

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Cross postings are an efficient way to reach a variety of readers
without using up (significant) additional news spool space. If your
news reader can't handle them rationally, it is still at most a minor
nuisance to skip the posts you've already seen. There is really no
reason to allow a single piece of outdated software to impose its
least common denominator on the larger community, when there are
plenty of alternatives.

Personally, I use gnus within emacs (within Emacs) to read news via an
nntp connection. With the NGService App that I found on the
Educational Sampler CD-ROM, when there's a posting that uses
NewsGrazer features to go beyond plain text capacity, I can just
select that portion of the message and hand it off via the Services
menu for translation. The best of several worlds, with a pretty good
mouse-oriented front end, threads, efficient handling of cross-posts,
and access to a full range of features beyond ascii text.

--Steve Anderson