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Subject: Re: Crossposting?
Date: Thu, 19 Oct 2017 20:38:20 -0500
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In article <MPG.3452eec4cd425b069896c4@news.giganews.com>,
Noe Boddie <nobody@nowhere.com> wrote:
> I think the days of Usenet hall monitors are long gone. Crosspost away!
I agree with that. To clarify my earlier explanation: Preventing
spammers from learning more newsgroup names to add to their lists has
always been one reason not to cross-post, but another reason is that
sometimes there have been two related groups in which two or more
factions (sometimes consisting of just one person each) would tend to
get into arguments and flame-wars and other stupid stuff. It has
occasionally happened that peace can be restored by having one of the
incompatible people stay in one group and the other one in another
group, with no crossposting between groups.
There's also a third reason I've seen over the years, which is just
ignorance and "We've always done it this way" and "Such-and-such a guru
here says it's a bad thing, so don't do it." In those cases, there are
no actual or technical reasons for prohibiting crossposting; it's
merely based on superstition or some random person's say-so. And if
you walk under a ladder, you'll have seven years of bad luck.
Once again, crossposting is putting two or more newsgroup names in the
"Newsgroups" header, separated by commas. Multiposting is the opposite
of that, making two or more posts of the same articles, in this case
binaries, to two or more groups with only one group name in each
"Newsgroups" header. For anyone who isn't already clear about this,
here's the kicker: Multiposting, not crossposting, is a very bad thing
to do, for the technical reasons stated earlier: mainly, it wastes
large amounts of disk space on the news servers and it wastes some net
bandwidth. That is most important to take into account when posting
huge things like video and audio rips. For instance, if I were to take
a 9-gigabyte DVD and post three copies of it to three groups *without*
crossposting, that would be foolish and irresponsible of me. A much
better thing to do would be to crosspost it and name all three groups
at one time in the Newsgroups header. But possibly even better than
that would be to post it to one group only, and then stop. If folks in
the other two groups need to know about it and download it, that's what
NZB files are for.
HTH again.
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