Path: csiph.com!eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!nntp.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: The Starmaker Newsgroups: sci.physics.relativity,alt.usage.english,rec.arts.tv Subject: Re: Everything You Wanted To Know About Cross-Posting But Were Afraid To Ask Date: Tue, 22 Sep 2026 12:09:06 -0700 Organization: The Starmaker Organization Lines: 132 Message-ID: <6AB2D252.30CB@ix.netcom.com> References: <6AB1A4B2.4E4B@ix.netcom.com> Reply-To: starmaker@ix.netcom.com MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Injection-Date: Tue, 22 Sep 2026 19:08:59 +0000 (UTC) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; logging-data="1184100"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1+Bk9wzitLGdc3MGPIloUWfMAdpwYNrWEg="; posting-host="9d8dd633d27e2aa0d49f1aab68d4c111" Cancel-Lock: sha1:3lN34Fz7P0xynmGxuJR+sACpRVo= sha256:CHt7MahZgKkqgmKOvMLy/QOSlofePOESDHtrkuKVL98= sha1:k/B2g4Jbgkg6HdSwj2lkQBd6Z9M= sha256:aJp05eAngmn1FrVvFlzPHn2IclTTUwp46ipD+UnOIuo= X-Antivirus: Avast (VPS 260921-4, 09/21/2026), Outbound message X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.04Gold (WinNT; U) X-Antivirus-Status: Clean Xref: csiph.com sci.physics.relativity:673620 alt.usage.english:1151188 rec.arts.tv:1857757 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.