Date: Mon, 19 Apr 1999 21:53:12 -0400 (EDT) From: John Baldwin <jobaldwi@vt.edu> To: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> Cc: FreeBSD Chat <chat@FreeBSD.ORG>, Bill Swingle <unfurl@dub.net>, Marius Bendiksen <mbendiks@eunet.no>, Amancio Hasty <hasty@rah.star-gate.com> Subject: Re: Cross Posting... Message-ID: <XFMail.990419215312.jobaldwi@vt.edu> In-Reply-To: <19990420105336.B40482@lemis.com>
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On 20-Apr-99 Greg Lehey wrote: > On Monday, 19 April 1999 at 2:26:14 -0700, Amancio Hasty wrote: >> Hi, >> >> Yes, I agree that cross posting is bad and that in general people should not >> do it . > > In fact, cross posting is good. The bad thing is that people on both > lists get multiple copies, and that's a mail implementation issue. > No, I don't know how to solve it (if it were easy, it would already > have been solved). But we shouldn't lose sight of the fact that > people who cross-post often do it because they believe that it's > relevant to each list. It's one thing to cross post an announcement. It's another thing to cross post an extended conversation of 20+ messages. It's that stuff that is bothersome, and expensive to some folks. > Greg --- John Baldwin <jobaldwi@vt.edu> -- http://members.freedomnet.com/~jbaldwin/ PGP Key: http://members.freedomnet.com/~jbaldwin/pgpkey.asc "Power Users Use the Power to Serve!" - http://www.freebsd.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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