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Article #2492Re: Oh hell, here we go again!
From: David Sternlight
Date: Sat, 19 Dec 1992 00:49
Date: Sat, 19 Dec 1992 00:49
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It's worth mentioning that some of us who use threaded newsreaders such as trn don't realize how annoying excessive cross-posting is to others, particularly if we have both the substantive groups and the irrelevant ones in our active base. It's more a matter of forming the correct habits than deliberate offense in most cases. I'm just getting into the habit of checking the headers when responding to a message, and I'm far from perfect at it as, I assume, are many others. Maybe the newsreader software writers should add an extra, optional question to the dialogue, asking if the writer of a reply wants to send it to ..... newsgroups, and giving him a chance to correct the address list. Or maybe trn and other groups have such a feature, and I just haven't found it yet. David
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Newsgroups: sci.crypt Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!spool.mu.edu!umn.edu!csus.edu!netcom.com!strnlght From: strnlght@netcom.com (David Sternlight) Subject: Re: Oh hell, here we go again! Message-ID: <1992Dec19.004951.22629@netcom.com> Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services (408 241-9760 guest) References: <1992Dec16.150146.28325@linus.mitre.org> <BzGuns.797@babbage.ece.uc.edu> Date: Sat, 19 Dec 1992 00:49:51 GMT Lines: 20