In article ,
Jeff Wisnia wrote:


jim rozen wrote:



Go back and look, there are a lot of 'tiny brass screw posts'
here now. Most of them are replies from other ngs that show
up here because the 'post to' line was never trimmed.
(rant finis!)

[ ... ]

Gotcha Jim..(I think..)

So, my understanding now is that the damnable "crossposting" activity involves
posting a message to multiple newsgroups by putting multiple newsgoups in the "to"
headers.

Except that the "To: " header does not exist in usenet
newsgroups. (Though it might on some broken newsreaders, such as
browsers pretending to be an e-mail client and a newsreader, and a bunch
of other things, or if an e-mail copy is CC'd to someone.) The header
which is important here is the "Newsgroups: " header.

From that I assume that there's nothing gosh about posting the same message to
multiple newsgroups if it's done by means of separate posts of the same message to
each newsgroup.

Dis I get it right?

An alternative is to cross post it, but to set the "Followup-To: "
header to point to a single newsgroup -- the one in which you expect to
be following the answers, and to *note*:

"Followups set to rec.crafts.metalworking"

in the body of the message, so people don't post a reply in their own
newsgroup, then not see it appear, and post it again ... and again ... :-)

This is the proper (and designed into usenet) way of asking a
question in multiple newsgroups, but keeping the resulting discussion in
a single newsgroup.

Enjoy,
DoN.

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