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Re: Cross-Posting [message #184188 is a reply to message #184186]

Sat, 14 December 2013 21:38

Thomas 'PointedEars'
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Christoph Michael Becker wrote:

> Jerry Stuckle wrote:
>> On 12/14/2013 1:55 PM, Christoph Michael Becker wrote:
>>> And please do not cross-post.
>>
>> Actually, cross-posting is the PREFERRED way of posting to multiple
>> (appropriate) newsgroups. Multi-posting is frowned upon, though.
>
> However, asking a question in multiple newsgroups might easily lead to
> separate discussions even when the OP was *cross*-posted, what is not
> preferable, IMHO. And as I do not prefer to (cross-)post to newsgroups
> which I am not subscribed to, because I might miss an important reply,
> my reply already has split the discussion.

If the Followup-To header field is specified properly, so as to avoid the
condition you are describing, there is no intrinsic problem with crossposts.
Mr. Stuckle is correct there.

See also [de] <http://www.liesmal.de/fup2-faq>.

>> In this case, both newsgroups he posted to were appropriate for the
>> subject (at least based on current information).
>
> Isn't *anything* that is on topic here also on topic in alt.php?

In theory, yes. But there is no alt.php except on Google Groups and similar
archives, and peculiarly maintained news servers.

The problem with *this* crosspost is that, *and* that alt.ALL – by contrast
to comp.ALL – does not belong to the Big 8. Where comp.ALL is order,
alt.ALL is anarchy; it is therefore a bad idea to crosspost to alt.ALL /and/
comp.ALL. In general, crossposting across hierarchy borders is a bad idea
for several reasons.

<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_8_(Usenet)>

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		recognize country By: nawfer on Sat, 14 December 2013 13:43
		Re: recognize country By: Jerry Stuckle on Sat, 14 December 2013 13:58
		Re: recognize country By: nawfer on Sun, 15 December 2013 10:16
		Re: recognize country By: Jerry Stuckle on Sun, 15 December 2013 13:37
		Re: recognize country By: The Natural Philosoph on Sat, 14 December 2013 15:27
		Re: recognize country By: Lew Pitcher on Sat, 14 December 2013 15:32
		Re: recognize country By: Christoph Michael Bec on Sat, 14 December 2013 18:55
		Re: recognize country By: Jerry Stuckle on Sat, 14 December 2013 19:52
		Cross-Posting (was: recognize country) By: Christoph Michael Bec on Sat, 14 December 2013 20:57
		Re: Cross-Posting By: Jerry Stuckle on Sat, 14 December 2013 21:20
		Re: Cross-Posting By: Christoph Michael Bec on Sat, 14 December 2013 22:25
		Re: Cross-Posting By: Jerry Stuckle on Sat, 14 December 2013 22:36
		Re: Cross-Posting By: Thomas 'PointedEars' on Sat, 14 December 2013 21:38
		Re: Cross-Posting By: Christoph Michael Bec on Sat, 14 December 2013 22:31
		Re: Cross-Posting By: Thomas 'PointedEars' on Sat, 14 December 2013 22:55
		Re: Cross-Posting By: Jerry Stuckle on Sat, 14 December 2013 23:08
		Re: Cross-Posting By: Christoph Michael Bec on Sat, 14 December 2013 23:35
		Re: Cross-Posting By: Thomas 'PointedEars' on Sun, 15 December 2013 00:13
		Re: recognize country By: Mr Oldies on Sat, 14 December 2013 23:56
		Re: recognize country By: Jerry Stuckle on Sun, 15 December 2013 00:09
		Re: recognize country By: nawfer on Sun, 15 December 2013 10:34
		Re: recognize country By: J.O. Aho on Sun, 15 December 2013 10:59
		Re: recognize country By: Thomas 'PointedEars' on Sun, 15 December 2013 11:05
		Re: recognize country By: Doug Miller on Sun, 15 December 2013 12:51
		Re: recognize country By: Jerry Stuckle on Sun, 15 December 2013 13:49
		Re: recognize country By: Tim Streater on Sun, 15 December 2013 13:13
		Re: recognize country By: Jerry Stuckle on Sun, 15 December 2013 13:50
		Re: recognize country By: Arno Welzel on Sun, 15 December 2013 14:22
		Re: recognize country By: The Natural Philosoph on Sun, 15 December 2013 15:35
		Re: recognize country By: Evan Platt on Sun, 15 December 2013 05:35
		Re: recognize country By: Doug Miller on Sun, 15 December 2013 12:42
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