Re: Saruman meets Frodo...

On Tue, 02 Aug 2005 17:24:36 -0300, Derek Broughton
<news@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>Chris Wright wrote:
>
>> ... in 'The Scouring of the Shire'. Saruman tries to stab Frodo (for
>> destroying the One Ring, I think), and when the Shire-folk tackle him to
>> the ground and are about to kill him, Frodo shows great clemency:
>
>Please don't post multiple times to different groups. Most of us read
>alt.fan.tolkien, and you're free to crosspost to both of them. I know some
>people tell you crossposting is evil, but only to inappropriate newsgroups.
>Any time posting to multiple groups is appropriate it _should_ be
>crossposted rather than posting multiple times, as many of us have
>newsreaders that will skip the second and subsequent occurrences of a post.

Multi-posting is NOT the same thing as cross-posting. When somebody
cross-posts, there are markers that set followups so when you respond
in one group, it also responds to other groups. Most good newsreaders
also filter out cross-posts so you only see them in the first group
you download headers for, preventing you from seeing the same message
again and again.

Now, multi-posting doesn't do this. In fact, it does the opposite,
wastes valuable drive space on servers and in general annoys
everybody.

.

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