Ref. Crossposting


Randy Webb wrote:
VK said the following on 5/31/2006 4:49 AM:
Nospam wrote:
Is there a tutorial on dynamic SID generation?

Please don't crosspost.

Yet another example of VK's intelligence level?


Crossposting (cross-posting) is the act of posting verbatim copies of
one message on multiple message centers, without customising each copy
to suit the audience or forum.

That is an exact action I was referring, so what's the problem? I would
understand a script related question posted at say c.l.j. and .m.p.p.j
to follow later in one of threads. That may be the "good use" you've
mentioned. Obviously posting at once in JavaScript, Perl and PHP
related groups (and reply in all of them) is not such use.

In relation of multiposting (multi-posting) it looks like someone's
terminology invention. Wiki is silent about it, and in quick search I
found only rather sick comparison table at
<http://www.blakjak.demon.co.uk/mul_crss.htm>. I call it "sick" because
the described behavior may have some relation to a particular software
(news reader) but has no relation to the Usenet as such (how does it
work).

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