Crossposting

[Menno Hershberger]

Is crossposting the "in" thing to do or not?
I never do, but sometimes I'll post the same question in two groups, but
seperately.
The reason I ask, I just went to reply to a post and discovered it was
crossposted to five different groups. So I didn't reply at all.

 

[dev]

/Menno Hershberger/ said:

Is crossposting the "in" thing to do or not?
I never do, but sometimes I'll post the same question in two groups, but
seperately.
The reason I ask, I just went to reply to a post and discovered it was
crossposted to five different groups. So I didn't reply at all.

If you must post to more than one group, crosspost. Many readers will
mark the message read in _all_ the groups to which it was posted when it
has been read in only one of those groups.

 

[Jack]

NO.....come on yuse your whatever...

 

[Yves Leclerc]

You can do cross-posting but you should only use the newsgroups that are
relevent.

Y

 

[Michael Stevens]

Is crossposting the "in" thing to do or not?
I never do, but sometimes I'll post the same question in two groups,
but seperately.
The reason I ask, I just went to reply to a post and discovered it was
crossposted to five different groups. So I didn't reply at all.

Yes, cross-posting cuts down on needless replies to the same question. When
a post is answered and replied to that is cross-posted, it will show the
reply in all groups it is cross-posted to. The OP will see the reply no
matter what group it is accessed from.
You can remove excessive cross-posts by deleting the groups from the sending
header.
Cross-posts should be only to relevant newsgroups and usually no more than
three at a time.
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[FrankV]

Seems to be more involved than that. I've tried cross-posting a few times
and got a computer message saying it can't be done. It appears to have
posted to just the first in the list.

Frank

 

[Michael Stevens]

Seems to be more involved than that. I've tried cross-posting a few
times and got a computer message saying it can't be done. It appears
to have posted to just the first in the list.

Frank

You have to be subscribed to the newsgroups to post to it. If you get the
message, just send anyway and it will post the groups you are subscribed to.
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[kurttrail]

You have to be subscribed to the newsgroups to post to it. If you get
the message, just send anyway and it will post the groups you are
subscribed to.

I've cross-posted to groups that I'm not subscribed to. And where is
this 3 NG cross-post coming from that you mentioned in your previous
post?

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[FrankV]

I already subscribed to the ones I tried to send to.

Frank

 

[Ken Blake, MVP]

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Is crossposting the "in" thing to do or not?
I never do, but sometimes I'll post the same question in two groups,
but seperately.

Many people will tell you how terrible crossposting is. It really
isn't as terrible as it's made out to be. It gets its bad
reputation primarily because it's a frequent tool of spammers.

If you want to reach multiple groups for a legitimate reason (not
spamming), it's far better to crosspost than to send the same
message seapately to the multiple groups (called multiposting).
Multi-posting fragments the thread, so an answer sent to one
group can't be seen (and rebutted if necessary) by a participant
in another group.

Crossposting, if not done to an excessive number of groups, or to
unrelated groups, is fine. Multiposting is always bad.

 

[Michael Stevens]

I've cross-posted to groups that I'm not subscribed to. And where is
this 3 NG cross-post coming from that you mentioned in your previous
post?

Actually you are right about not having to be subscribed to the newsgroup,
but you do need to have access setup to a news server that carries the
newsgroup. If you only have msnews.microsoft.com setup as your news server,
you will not be able to post to say a windowsxp.alt newsgroup.
The 3 newsgroup limit is a suggestion from many newsgroup FAQ's over the
years and is not a rule. It is a suggestion that will keep the cross-poster
from getting flamed.
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[Bruce Chambers]

Greetings --

If you're going to post the same question in two or more related
newsgroups, then it's best to cross-post. The generally accepted rule
of "netiquette" is to cross-post to no more than 3 to 5 closely
related news groups. That way, when some sees and responds to your
question in one newsgroup, his/her reply is automatically replicated
to the other news groups. Additionally, when someone has read your
message in the first newsgroup, it will already be flagged as "read,"
should he/she then browse one or more of the other news groups. This
cuts down on redundancy and, for those who have to pay by the minute
to download files or headers, it saves money.


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[kurttrail]

Actually you are right about not having to be subscribed to the
newsgroup, but you do need to have access setup to a news server that
carries the newsgroup. If you only have msnews.microsoft.com setup as
your news server, you will not be able to post to say a windowsxp.alt
newsgroup.
Yep.

The 3 newsgroup limit is a suggestion from many newsgroup FAQ's over
the years and is not a rule. It is a suggestion that will keep the
cross-poster from getting flamed.

LOL! There is only one suggestion that will keep a cross-poster or any
poster from getting flamed, and that is don't post the the USENET at all.

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[Michael Stevens]

LOL! There is only one suggestion that will keep a cross-poster or any
poster from getting flamed, and that is don't post the the USENET at all.

Right here too. LOL But at least they have a "slim" chance of not being
flamed not posting to an excessive number of groups.

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[FrankV]

The only newsgroups I attempted are in msnews and I currently read each one.

Frank

 

[kurttrail]

I already subscribed to the ones I tried to send to.

Frank

Well I don't read or subscribe to the test groups that I added to this
reply, and I don't have any othe nntp news server set up on this
computer, but I'm sure that this post will show up in those test groups.

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[Alex Nichol]

Is crossposting the "in" thing to do or not?
I never do, but sometimes I'll post the same question in two groups, but
seperately.
The reason I ask, I just went to reply to a post and discovered it was
crossposted to five different groups. So I didn't reply at all.

If it is relevant to a reasonable number of groups, or is a specialist
point that might related to more than one specialist group, then do a
cross post. Up to three is regarded as reasonable. If you do, make it
a 'proper' one to the three groups as destinations in the single
message. Then people can ignore the later copies if they have seen if
already.


But if you do cross-post a question, be prepared to come back to *each*
of the groups concerned for a reply - don't assume that the respondents
will have replied to all; nor even that they are willing to have replies
transferred to a different group that they might not normally visit. I
certainly would not go over to such a second group to see if there were
further suggestions to make