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   Everything You Wanted To Know About Cross-Posting But Were Afraid To   
   Ask   
      
   Sometimes, you'll have an issue you think should be discussed in more   
   than one newsgroup. Rather than posting individual messages in each   
   group, you can post the same message in several groups at once,   
   through   
   a process known as cross-posting.   
      
   Say you want to start a discussion about the political ramifications   
   of   
   importing rare tropical fish from Brazil. People who read rec.aquaria   
   might have something to say. So might people who read   
   alt.politics.animals and talk.politics.misc.   
      
   Cross-posting is easy. It also should mean that people on other   
   systems   
   who subscribe to several newsgroups will see your message only once,   
   rather than several times -- news-reading software can cancel out the   
   other copies once a person has read the message. When you get ready to   
   post a message , you'll be asked in which newsgroups. Type the names   
   of   
   the various groups, separated by a comma, but no space, for example:   
      
   rec.aquaria,alt.politics.animals,talk.politics.misc   
      
   and hit enter. The message will be posted in the various groups   
   (unless   
   one of the groups is moderated, in which case the message goes to the   
   moderator, who decides whether to make it public).   
      
   It's considered bad form to post to an excessive number of newsgroups,   
   or inappropriate newsgroups. Probably, you don't really have to post   
   something in 20 different places. And while you may think your   
   particular political issue is vitally important to the fate of the   
   world, chances are the readers of rec.arts.comics will not, or at   
   least   
   not important enough to impose on them. You'll get a lot of nasty   
   e-mail   
   messages demanding you restrict your messages to the "appropriate"   
   newsgroups.   
      
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   Expand your mind, expand your universe, experience new things and   
   ideas,   
   ...with cross-posting.   
   The Starmaker   
      
   "A posting that is cross-posted (i.e. lists multiple newsgroups on the   
   Newsgroups: header line) to a few appropriate newsgroups is fine..."   
   --from Google Groups website   
      
   "If you do post to multiple newsgroups, don't post to each group   
   separately. Instead, specify all the groups on a single copy of the   
   message. This reduces network overhead and lets people who subscribe   
   to   
   more than one group see the message once instead of having to wade   
   through each copy. -- from Google Groups   
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   The Starmaker -- To question the unquestionable, ask the unaskable,   
   to think the unthinkable, mention the unmentionable, say the unsayable,   
   and challenge the unchallengeable.   
      
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