Re: Why do people crosspost?

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From: Hugh Watkins
Date: Sat, 12 Jan 2002 21:24

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"PJ" <pj@pjparks.com> wrote in message news:hK108.14783$uA.112892@rwcrnsc51.ops.asp.att.net...
> "Rob" <robero99@hotmail.com> wrote
> after I wrote
>
> <...>
> : But I do want to know if crossposting irritates you as much as
> : it does me.
> :
> : I like it.  It tends to get some new blood in here.  And boy this
> : place needs some new blood.
>
> Hmmm. You mean new blood like people who really like and understand
> chess and the Grateful Dead but are not writers, nor do they aspire to
> be writers, so they don't care about silly little details like, say,
> copyright infringement?
>
> Yeah, I can see how they would definitely make a writers' newsgroup
> better.

the Germans have the only group devoted to crosspostin



hannover.fundgrube,fido.ger.kommerz,braunschweig.crossposting

seems to be about selling things



should we star a news:misc.writing.crossposting to catch up?



seems a bit pointless discussing crossposting without doing it

Hugh W

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From: "Hugh Watkins" <hugh_watkins@net.dialog.dk>
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Subject: Re: Why do people crosspost?
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