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- From: ts@reimari.uwasa.fi (Timo Salmi)
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- Subject: Re: 3d programming
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- Date: 17 Feb 1996 22:51:05 +0200
- Organization: University of Vaasa, Finland
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- Please let me help:
-
- -From: ftp://garbo.uwasa.fi/pc/ts/tsfaqn44.zip Frequently Asked Questions
- -Subject: Instructions about cross-posting
-
- 14. *****
- Q: What is cross-posting? How do I do it?
-
- A: As we all know, Usenet news have the newsgroups divided by the
- topic areas. If you want your message to appear in more than one
- newsgroup you can achieve this by cross-posting. If you look at the
- header in the news you will notice the item Newsgroups:. Put the
- names of the newsgroups in there separated by commas. Scan the
- headers of almost any newsgroup, and you are bound to see how it is
- done.
- The number one rule of cross-posting is that cross-posting should
- never be used indiscriminately. If you feel that it is necessary to
- cross-post, consider carefully your selection, and keep it down.
- Avoid cross-posting to groups that are branches of the same
- sub-hierarchy, that is don't cross-post to adjacent newsgroups.
- What goes for newsgroup selection in general, also applies to
- cross-posting. Never cross-post to newsgroups which do not coincide
- with your subject.
- There is one very important DON'T in cross-posting. Do not send
- the same message separately to different newsgroups. Always use the
- cross-posting facility of the news (Newsgroups:). If you repeat a
- message separately in different newsgroups, the readers will have to
- see your posting many times over, and will get annoyed. You have a
- good chance of justifiably ending up flamed.
- I have heard that there are some newsreader programs that do not
- allow editing the headers. I can only suggest contacting your system
- manager or some other local guru about it. I have no further
- information on this unusual dilemma since on most news programs
- editing the headers is not a problem. Be careful, however, if you
- edit the headers. Learn their exact requirements. If you make
- mistakes, the posting may fail, and/or the followups to it by other
- users may fail because of your editing errors. For example
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.pascal,comp.os.msdos.programmer,
- would result in an error in following up because of the trailing
- comma.
-
- A2: Here are a couple of further tips when you have got the hang of
- cross posting. As you can see there is a "Followup-To:" field in the
- news header. Sometimes you might want to direct the replies only a
- to single newsgroup even if you have cross posted the original. The
- rationale here is to prevent the discussion from scattering to
- several newsgroups. Please consider using this option whenever you
- cross post.
- Some users put the word poster in there to redirect the potential
- replies directly to them by email. The problem with this method is
- that even if it should work, it is not guaranteed to do so. Some
- system configurations and newsreaders do not handle this correctly.
- For example I usually get a bounce if I reply to such a posting.
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-
- All the best, Timo
-
- ....................................................................
- Prof. Timo Salmi Co-moderator of news:comp.archives.msdos.announce
- Moderating at ftp:// & http://garbo.uwasa.fi archives 193.166.120.5
- Department of Accounting and Business Finance ; University of Vaasa
- ts@uwasa.fi http://uwasa.fi/~ts BBS 961-3170972; FIN-65101, Finland
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