Re: Sort of OT - Multiposting vs Crossposting

In article <0h4re457lusd106o2n543t6vs6ppq2o5vd@xxxxxxx>,
Laurie S. <laurienews@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On Fri, 15 Aug 2008 23:02:28 +0100, Corey Richardson
<C.Richardson@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On Fri, 15 Aug 2008 16:47:38 -0500, Lou Decruss <Me@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

jmcquown wrote:

Doing so will net the OP much less aggravation and
accusations of trolling. But of course he's trolling so he's getting
exactly what he hoped for when people like you champion the
cross-posting cause!

If he's going to post to more than one group, then cross-posting is the
correct way.

Unless the readers of one, both, or all of the groups object to it.

No. multi-posting is *never* the correct way regardless.

If I have a question I want to pose to several diverse groups whose
members would be unlikely to be interested in a crossposted thread,
multiposting is a simple and efficient way to ask that question.

If I want to ask the same question in, say, soc.women and soc.men, two
groups whose perspectives are drastically different, it would be
incendiary to crosspost, but potentially interesting to see how the
answers differed.

Please read up on Usenet FAQs and nettiquette.

Where are you reading? Most of what I read refers to EXCESSIVE
multiposting, which would be considered spam.

I thought of a stupid story to post here, as an explanation, but it's
really stupid, and maybe you wouldn't get the point anyway.

The point is, many people dislike cross-posting, and don't want to see
it. Multi-posting is not the answer, because those people who dislike
cross-posting don't dislike multi-posting, THEY HATE IT WITH AN INTENSE
PASSION!

"EXCESSIVE multi-posting" is any post that is made identically to more
than one group.

--
Dan Abel
Petaluma, California USA
dabel@xxxxxxxxx
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