XPost: alt.religion.christian.east-orthodox, alt.books.beatgeneration,   
   alt.usage.english   
   XPost: soc.culture.south-africa, rec.arts.books, misc.education   
   XPost: sci.anthropology   
   From: hayesstw.spamless@yahoo.com   
      
   On Wed, 15 Oct 2003 08:33:13 +0100, Charles Riggs  wrote:   
      
   >On Tue, 14 Oct 2003 23:42:53 +0100, peter@cara.demon.co.uk (Peter   
   >Ceresole) wrote:   
   >>Oh hell... I carefully set the reply-to and Google *still* sprays it all   
   >>over the place.   
   >>   
   >>That's what is going wrong with Usenet and why it's all going to hell;   
   >   
   >..as if posting to more than one group is such a big crime, ranking   
   >above stupidity, off-topicity, and all else. Sheesh.   
      
   Quite.   
      
   I am grateful to people who cross-post interesting things to groups that I   
   read, which I would otherwise have missed.   
      
   Objecting to all cross-posting is one of the more annoying idiocies of people   
   on Usenet. Whether crossposting is good or bad depends entirely on the quality   
   and relevance of the material.   
      
   My original complain was a mata-complaint. It was posted in a number of groups   
   where I had noted a marked drop in the quality of postings. Since I posted it,   
   there had been a marked improvement in rec.arts.books, and a continued sharp   
   deterioration in soc.culture.south-africa, where all recent postings have been   
   from a foreign (I think American) troll.   
      
      
      
      
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