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Nigel.Allen@launchpad.unc.edu (Nigel Allen) writes:

>If you have a local newsgroup called "general", you will sometimes find
>articles from other sites in that newsgroup. These articles will normally
>have been cross-posted to general (by which the original poster meant
>their *own* general newsgroup) and to a more widely-distributed group.
>These other-site posts to general can confuse your users. (In fact, if you
>check general on your own site, you may find some fairly shrill arguments
>about the U.S. presidential election that were cross-posted to soc.singles
>and general.)

I think the general news group is one that c-news or nn create
automatically which explains why so many sites end up with it.  Also,
choosing a name like cs.general is also a bad idea because it confused me
for quite some time how the only things that ever appeared in our own
cs.general newsgroup were from exotic locations outside the department and
also parts of threads that were not in the group either.  I eventaully
cottoned on to what was happening when one of the aforementioned articles
was someone testing his theory of cross-posting :-)

Craig
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