XPost: sci.math   
   From: PointedEars@web.de   
      
   Serafin Marchukov wrote:   
   > The Starmaker wrote:   
   >> "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   
   >   
   > absolutely, thanks. Ingenuity.   
      
   First of all, Google Groups is NOT an authority on Usenet.  In fact, during   
   the time after Google bought the DejaNews Usenet archive and provided Google   
   Groups as a hybrid Web forum and Usenet gateway, technically they violated   
   almost every NetNews standard; as a result, users who posted to Usenet via   
   Google Groups without being aware of that, replaced AOL users as the most   
   loathed user group on Usenet.  I even contributed to a tutorial for Google   
   Groups users in the German-speaking Usenet on how they could work around the   
   technical shortcomings of Google Groups, and thus be less annoying.   
   Nowadays, Google Groups has nothing to do with Usenet anymore; it cannot   
   even be properly used as a Usenet archive anymore (you cannot look up a   
   posting by Message-ID anymore).   
      
   However, in this case the quoted advice is sound (*if* you want to post to   
   multiple newsgroups, then crosspost, do not multipost); it may have been   
   quoted from a Usenet posting that is only archived at Google Groups instead.   
      
   But it is also incomplete: When one crossposts because the subject of the   
   discussion changes to one that is not relevant to the original, one SHOULD   
   also set Followup-To the *one* newsgroup where the subsequent discussion is   
   on-topic; or to "poster", indicating that replies should be sent by e-mail.   
      
   That crossposting is not intended to be the default way of posting to Usenet   
   can be seen from this sentiment posted by Peter da Silva in the early 1990s:   
      
   | No posting is relevant to more than a handful of newsgroups. If World War   
   | III is announced, it will be announced in news.announce.important. It will   
   | also be announced in comp.sys.ibm-pc, comp.sys.mac, comp.sys.amiga, and   
   | alt.religion.scientology. But no others.   
      
   Therefore, F'up2 poster as neither sci.physics.relativity nor sci.math is   
   the correct newsgroup to discuss this.   
      
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