Re: Huckabee key to McCain victory/defeat
- From: Dave K <dave.k@xxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 14 Apr 2008 16:59:02 GMT
On Sun, 13 Apr 2008 13:40:11 -0400, WaIIy <WaIIy@(nft).invalid> wrote:
On Sun, 13 Apr 2008 12:31:21 -0500, "Rick B."
<existentialsailor@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Sun, 13 Apr 2008 10:58:52 -0400, Just Judy wrote:
DITTO <--- I scream!
I'm trying to avoid killfiling Edward O'hare but his
crossposting to the planet is annoying.
Another one?
What? Did this group suddenly get filled with eighth graders? Just remove
the groups you don't want your reply to crosspost to.
Personally, I find top posting more annoying than crossposts.
They're both annoying. Yes, it's easy to reply to just this group, no
problem.
What happens is every moron who posts to the thread from other groups
clog this group up and it never seems to end.
That is net-abuse. What you are seeing here is not, necessarily.
BTW, it is not about Morons, but about people who abuse the net.
Crossposters (and top-posters) should be punished.
I'll offer this to you this as a suggested reading, and not as a
mandatory rule set. It is the FAQ for the news.admin.net-abuse groups
<http://www.cybernothing.org/faqs/net-abuse-faq.html>
From section 1.3:
"However, as Neil Pawson says, "it's for abuse *of* the net, NOT abuse
*on* the net." Just because somebody does something vile doesn't mean
we can do anything about it on n.a.n-a. To qualify as true
panic-inspiring net-abuse, an act must interfere with the net-use of a
large number of people. Examples of this: newsgroup flooding,
widespread or organized forgery campaigns, widespread or organized
account hackery, widespread or organized censorship attempts,
etcetera."
Consider that is the context of 2.3:
"2.3) What about cross-posting?
Here's the difference between cross-posting and multi-posting:
cross-posting is where you list all the groups on the Newsgroups: line
of a single post. Multi-posting is where you have some idiotic program
fire an individual copy of the post to each group. (If you do it
manually, that's even more idiotic.) A cross-post only takes up the
space of 1 post (one on every newsserver in the world), no matter how
many groups; multi-posting takes up the space of dozens or hundreds of
posts (on every newsserver in the world), which is why it infuriates
so many people.
So, cross-posting is better than multi-posting. It's still very often
a bad idea, and if you get carried away it'll still get cancelled (see
3.2, "What is the Breidbart Index (BI)?") This is often called
Excessive Cross-Posting, or ECP. Some folks still call it "velveeta"
because they like cutesy names.
If you *must* cross-post, set the followups to a single appropriate
group by adding a header line like:
Followup-to: group.name.here
This prevents the readers of all the groups from having to deal with
the thread for weeks afterwards if the readers of only one or two of
the groups take an interest in it.
You can also add Followup-to: poster, which will (in most newsreaders)
ask anybody who tries to follow up to e-mail you directly instead."
Now, we come to nettiquette, and that is what we are seeing a
negligence of here:
<http://www.cybernothing.org/cno/docs/rfc1855.html>
No offense intended, but all of this hoopla about crossposting is
really not important, especially in the context of the generally
accepted guidelines of USENET, and the Internet. At least not as I
see it. YMMV.
Now the shoe spammer... That is abuse of the net, and he should be
shot. Okay, Okay, maybe not shot, just impaled...<g>
--
Cheers! :)
.
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