Re: Interested in Linux

From: J.O. Aho (user_at_example.net)
Date: 02/19/04 

Date: Thu, 19 Feb 2004 10:09:38 +0100

Rich Phillips wrote:
> Thanks for all the input, and I think I'm going to give it a go.
>
> I apologize if posting on two groups created a problem. On many of the
> other groups I follow there are significantly different participants. In
> that context, posting in more than one place often gets you a variety of
> different inputs. Again, I apoligize if that is a concern with this group.

A better way is to crosspost, but don't include more than 3-4 newsgroups, this
way everyone on those groups have the possibility to see the posts and comment
on eachothers replys even if not subscribing to the same groups.

What you did is called multipost and considered as one of the worst things you
can do when it comes to newsgroups, of course spam and reply to spam is IMHO
worse.

  //Aho

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