Posted by Beauregard T. Shagnasty on 03/19/06 05:16

Jonathan N. Little wrote:

> tintagel wrote:
>
>> I've just spotted that you made a helpful reply to the same question
>> I posted to another group, for which I owe you thanks. I presume
>> therefore that what you meant by, 'Then don't multi-post into it.
>> Cross-post if you have to,' is that I shouldn't have posted the same
>> message to different groups. Fair point if 'multi-posting' causes
>> problems, but I don't know how to do 'cross-post'.

You probably can't cross-post, using the Google Groups web interface to
Usenet. (You do know this is Usenet, and not a web site, correct?) Does
your ISP offer you NNTP News service? If so, sign up and get a real news
reader to access it.

> XPosting is posting one message ONCE with more than one group listed
> in the T0 field as opposed to posting the message in one group then
> again in another....

And the why not to multi-post:

http://oakroadsystems.com/genl/unice.htm#xpost

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-bts
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