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- From: anderson@sapir.cog.jhu.edu (Stephen Anderson)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc
- Subject: Re: ARG. Crossposting is a pain!!!
- Message-ID: <ANDERSON.92Nov6115849@sapir.cog.jhu.edu>
- Date: 6 Nov 92 16:58:49 GMT
- References: <1992Nov5.174622.9216@kakwa.ucs.ualberta.ca>
- Sender: news@umd5.umd.edu
- Organization: Dept. of Cognitive Science, The Johns Hopkins University
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- In-reply-to: sherwood@space.ualberta.ca's message of 5 Nov 92 17:46:22 GMT
-
- >>>>> On 5 Nov 92 17:46:22 GMT, sherwood@space.ualberta.ca (Sherwood
- Botsford) said:
- sherwood> [argument about why cross-postings are a
- sherwood> nuisance to people who use NewsGrazer]
-
- cat < /dev/null :
-
- Cross postings are an efficient way to reach a variety of readers
- without using up (significant) additional news spool space. If your
- news reader can't handle them rationally, it is still at most a minor
- nuisance to skip the posts you've already seen. There is really no
- reason to allow a single piece of outdated software to impose its
- least common denominator on the larger community, when there are
- plenty of alternatives.
-
- Personally, I use gnus within emacs (within Emacs) to read news via an
- nntp connection. With the NGService App that I found on the
- Educational Sampler CD-ROM, when there's a posting that uses
- NewsGrazer features to go beyond plain text capacity, I can just
- select that portion of the message and hand it off via the Services
- menu for translation. The best of several worlds, with a pretty good
- mouse-oriented front end, threads, efficient handling of cross-posts,
- and access to a full range of features beyond ascii text.
-
- --Steve Anderson
-