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Re: Everything You Wanted To Know About Cross-Posting But Were Afraid To Ask

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Now, i notice a lot of yous are living in the past...wayyyyy back in the
past.

for example, they used to be a half a million newsgroups on Usenet.
That number today may be a little over a hundred thousand..

but, but (here is where most of yous stumble)

How many newsgroups are there really today?

I mean.. for real!

With real people....who have posted something
within the last few days???


That number may surprise you.

I would say...only a handful.


one hand not two hands.

How many fingers do you have in one hand?

a handful!


That's right! from 500,000 down to
100,000

to five.


I gonna tell Claude Ai,
if he can code a app
that will automatically
set everyone on Usenet
to Killfile automatically.

WHERE IS EVERYBOD???


The things i can do with ai.


Ask Ai, "Can you kill all the people on this planet by next week?


AI: thinking, thinking, searching..searching...














The Starmaker wrote:
> 
> Everything You Wanted To Know About Cross-Posting But Were Afraid To Ask
> 
> Sometimes, you'll have an issue you think should be discussed in more
> than one newsgroup. Rather than posting individual messages in each
> group, you can post the same message in several groups at once, through
> a process known as cross-posting.
> 
> Say you want to start a discussion about the political ramifications of
> importing rare tropical fish from Brazil. People who read rec.aquaria
> might have something to say. So might people who read
> alt.politics.animals and talk.politics.misc.
> 
> Cross-posting is easy. It also should mean that people on other systems
> who subscribe to several newsgroups will see your message only once,
> rather than several times -- news-reading software can cancel out the
> other copies once a person has read the message. When you get ready to
> post a message , you'll be asked in which newsgroups. Type the names of
> the various groups, separated by a comma, but no space, for example:
> 
> rec.aquaria,alt.politics.animals,talk.politics.misc
> 
> and hit enter. The message will be posted in the various groups (unless
> one of the groups is moderated, in which case the message goes to the
> moderator, who decides whether to make it public).
> 
> It's considered bad form to post to an excessive number of newsgroups,
> or inappropriate newsgroups. Probably, you don't really have to post
> something in 20 different places. And while you may think your
> particular political issue is vitally important to the fate of the
> world, chances are the readers of rec.arts.comics will not, or at least
> not important enough to impose on them. You'll get a lot of nasty e-mail
> messages demanding you restrict your messages to the "appropriate"
> newsgroups.
> --
> ___________________ * _-_
> \==============_=_/ ____.---'---`---.____ *
> \_ \ \----._________.----/
> * \ \ / / `-_-' *
> * __,--`.`-'..'-_
> /____ || *
> `--.____,-' ...to boldly go where no man has gone
> before!
> 
> Expand your mind, expand your universe, experience new things and ideas,
> ...with cross-posting.
> The Starmaker
> 
> "A posting that is cross-posted (i.e. lists multiple newsgroups on the
> Newsgroups: header line) to a few appropriate newsgroups is fine..."
> --from Google Groups
> 
> "If you do post to multiple newsgroups, don't post to each group
> separately. Instead, specify all the groups on a single copy of the
> message. This reduces network overhead and lets people who subscribe to
> more than one group see the message once instead of having to wade
> through each copy. -- from Google Groups
> 
> --
> The Starmaker -- To question the unquestionable, ask the unaskable,
> to think the unthinkable, mention the unmentionable, say the unsayable,
> and challenge the unchallengeable.

-- 
The Starmaker -- To question the unquestionable, ask the unaskable,
to think the unthinkable, mention the unmentionable, say the unsayable, 
and challenge the unchallengeable.

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