- newsgroups: cross-posting by mentioning another group?
- Posted by hellrazor on July 16th, 2004
Today I was accused of cross-posting because I mentioned another newsgroup
in the body of my post (it was a comp.os.* group). I have not seen any FAQ
that mentions cross-posting as "mention of another group". Was this guy
talking out of his ass or does he have a point?
thanks.
- Posted by Jim Berwick on July 16th, 2004
hellrazor <jorge@another-world.com> wrote in
news:Xns95288AB35F745jorgeanotherworldcom@64.59.14 4.76:
Talking out his ass.
- Posted by Alex B on July 16th, 2004
If you want the definition of crossposting, look for posts by "We live for
the one we die for the one" ;-)
"Jim Berwick" <jimb@snip.net> wrote in message
news:Xns9528AABAE15A4jimbsnipnet@207.103.26.26...
- Posted by Blinky the Shark on July 17th, 2004
hellrazor wrote:
Probably the latter. Crossposting is posting the same message with
multiple group names in the distribution. Okay if you don't get carried
away with it: not many groups, and only relevant groups. Multiposting
is *separately* posting (only one newsgroup each) the same post to
multiple groups; this is worse.
But possibly something else you did pissed off some people. What's the
Message-ID of the post in question?
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- Posted by hellrazor on July 17th, 2004
Blinky the Shark <no.spam@box.invalid> wrote in
news:slrncfgpvc.mv6.no.spam@thurston.blinkynet.net :
Message ID of parent post:
Xns95277616972CAjorgeanotherworldcom@64.59.144.76
I may have pissed them off, but I moved the discussion out of the NG where
people were complaining. Then he follows me to the other newsgroup and
tells me that I'm cross posting because I mentioned the other NG.
- Posted by Boomer on July 17th, 2004
hellrazor <jorge@another-world.com> wrote:
He doesn't seem to be 'following' you.
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++
news:YDAJc.2080$Wd.22947@ord-read.news.verio.net
You started posting at:
comp.lang.c++ AND comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.win32
on the 15th (Cross posting.)
He asked you to stop.
news:3eAJc.2079$Wd.23009@ord-read.news.verio.net
He appears to post at both groups separately.
news:cwVJc.2098$Wd.23411@ord-read.news.verio.net
Ignore... and post to the correct group with a new subject line like
"win api return value" or something. <sigh>
- Posted by Blinky the Shark on July 17th, 2004
hellrazor wrote:
Well, you did crosspost the original, which your first description of the
issue here did not reveal. Here's the Newsgroups header from that post:
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++,comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.win32
But if you removed the complaining group from subsequent replies, that's about
all you can do at that point. Perhaps others didn't, and you ended up
taking the heat for that.
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- Posted by ^Hellrazor^ on July 17th, 2004
Blinky the Shark <no.spam@box.invalid> wrote in
news:slrncfh4ev.mv6.no.spam@thurston.blinkynet.net :
The original, yes.. I'm guilty. But subsequent ones, he says I continued
cross-posting because I mentioned the newsgroup.. bahumbug to that BS!
