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Re: Crossposting FAQ, why, when and how to crosspost
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lugnet.faq
Date: 
Thu, 14 Mar 2002 04:06:36 GMT
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(sent back to lugnet.faq, since I'm dealing only with micro-issues, not meta
ones)

In lugnet.admin.general, Larry Pieniazek writes:
In lugnet.faq, Cary Clark writes:
In lugnet.faq, Larry Pieniazek writes:
...
I'd say that entry misses most of the gist. The title doesn't even have
"Crosspost" in it,

Intentionally. The title is 'how do I post to multiple groups' instead of
'how do I crosspost' because it assumes that the reader doesn't know what
crossposting is.

Well since my post was trying to explain a number of terms, including
crossposting, taking the term out of the title pretty much undercuts that.
The title has the word 'crossposting' in it now.

...
I also added a paragraph discouraging cut-n-paste.



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  Re: Crossposting FAQ, why, when and how to crosspost
 
(...) Well since my post was trying to explain a number of terms, including crossposting, taking the term out of the title pretty much undercuts that. (...) Maybe it should be, just a bit. If there is a behaviour that EVERYONE agrees is wrong (for (...) (23 years ago, 14-Mar-02, to lugnet.admin.general)

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