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Re: Excessive Cross Posting
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lugnet.admin.general
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Mon, 18 Dec 2000 00:30:07 GMT
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In lugnet.admin.general, Frank Filz writes:
> Todd,
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> Is there some way to shut down the excessive cross posting which has
> been occurring lately? I'm beginning to feel that Lugnet might be better
> off if no cross posting was allowed, though I can see some reason for
> limited cross posting.
I think that's a bit extreme, although what I snipped below is good
discussion fodder. I think a number of the recent cross posts have been
initiated by people who either are new, or who don't post as often as some
of us.
An initial cross post is fine, but where we really go off the rails is when
22 groups are included, and everyone (including a lot of folks who know
better) just posts replies without thinking about where to set followups to.
I'd support automation that required you to explicitly fill out followups
when you have more than one group in the newsgroups line, or something like
that... maybe a box you have to explicitly check to say "yes I mean to send
this post to multiple groups even though it's a follow up" when you initiate
a reply?
Or something.
But automation doesn't help nntp or mail so I dunno.
<snip>
++Lar
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Message has 3 Replies:
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| (...) it does - I think. When you post to .annouce, even from mail or nntp, doesn't it require a followup? if so, adding a few other rules to that check should be quite possible... (24 years ago, 18-Dec-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
| | | Re: Excessive Cross Posting
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| (...) I mostly concur, I just sometimes wonder if it might be the best solution (of course the counter to that is that you get the jerks who work around the cross posting rules by posting individually to each group - but they can be TOSed). (...) (...) (24 years ago, 18-Dec-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
| | | Re: Excessive Cross Posting
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| (...) I've been that everyone. Typically, the reason I do a "reply to all groups" is because I'm arriving in the middle of a large-ish thread, I have no idea what ng's other people have been using,[1] so I just leave things alone, and reply to all (...) (24 years ago, 18-Dec-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| | Excessive Cross Posting
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| Todd, Is there some way to shut down the excessive cross posting which has been occurring lately? I'm beginning to feel that Lugnet might be better off if no cross posting was allowed, though I can see some reason for limited cross posting. Some (...) (24 years ago, 17-Dec-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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