Posted by meltedown on 08/06/05 04:29

Veikko Mäkinen wrote:
> John wrote:
>
>> I am fairly new to php but I think I must be completely missing the
>> poiny here (or going mad)
>>
>> I would have expected this to match, am I right?
>>
>> if (eregi("a89", "a.[0-9]" ))
>> {echo "<br>match";}
>> else {echo "<br>no match";}
>
>
> Please do not cross post (send a single message to multiple groups). If
> you want to send it to more than one group just send one message with
> all the groups listed in the header and set follow-ups to a single
> group. See http://home.icomnet.com/support/usenet.shtml
>
> I answered you in alt.php.
>
>
> -veikko
>
You misundertood what a crosspost is.
From the page you linked to:
"Cross-posting is posting a Usenet article to more than one newsgroup by
writing all the newsgroup names in the article's header."

So when you tell anyone to "just send one message with
all the groups listed in the header" you are telling them to crosspost.

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