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In article <sd4MhfAalNwzEwB6@pjudge.demon.co.uk>
           peter@pjudge.demon.co.uk "Peter Judge" writes:

> >Find out how to cross-post, and DO SO (but only when appropriate).
> >
> >(A cross-posted article saves bandwidth, because although it appears in
> >all the newsgroups to which it's posted, only one copy of the message
> >travels across the 'net, between news peers, or between server and
> >clients.)
> >
> Ah - I see what you mean. Yes - I need to know about that. Do replies
> also get cross-posted? Only if the person replying wants them to (and
> thinks about it, I guess). 

Traditionally, yes, since it's considered bad netiquette to shift the
thread into a single group when it was oriignally in many WITHOUT SAYING
SO.  The responsible posters of cross-posted articles will arrange in
advance for the thread to continue in ONE relevant group (through use of
the Followup-To header); unless the original post so says, it's rather
rude to split it off by posting to only one group instead, since this
leads to fragmentation of the discussion.

Forte (Free) Agent is a major culprit here: because their original
software was totally ignorant of the concept of cross-posting, it failed
to deal properly with cross-posted material, and presented it multiple
times to the readers (jst as if multiposted).  So a tradition grew up to
post only into the group being read.  It's *always* wise to look at the
Newsgroups line to find out just whereabouts responses are appearing: I
note that this is *only* in demon.ip.developers, but originally the
thread was more widely cross-posted, so I'd guess that someone else had
earlier restricted distribution.

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