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

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  Everything You Wanted To Know About Cross-Posting But Were Afraid To Ask The Starmaker <starmaker@ix.netcom.com> - 2026-09-21 14:42 -0700
    Re: Everything You Wanted To Know About Cross-Posting But Were Afraid To Ask The Starmaker <starmaker@ix.netcom.com> - 2026-09-22 12:09 -0700

#1151138 — Everything You Wanted To Know About Cross-Posting But Were Afraid To Ask

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.

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#1151188

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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