Steve B wrote:
If I have a question that can be answered in more than one newsgroup, should
I:

A. post it to each newsgroup separately so it is not filtered by those who
have the ";" as a filter to avoid crossposted posts?

B. do the Cc: thing above, and list all the newsgroups I want the question
to go to.

It seems that no matter what way one goes, you get called a crossposter.

Is there a "proper" way to do it, or is this just a non matter followed up
only by Net Nannies?

Think about what is most efficient and what is most important - yours
and your readers'/responders' time - and don't worry about etiquette.
If people are hung up on using the "right" fork at the expense of
consideration for other peoples' time and feelings...well, I don't
worry too much about offending them. They're going to be offended no
matter what you do. I also have no patience for people who insist you
do something in an inefficient way - that's just dumb.

Efficiency is obviously on the OP's side for crossposting the one
question to a _select_ number of groups in a single post.

From a reader's viewpoint, reading a message once and having it marked
read in all of the groups is also more efficient.

Most importantly, at least to me - from a responder's viewpoint - not
wasting my time answering a question that has already received pretty
much the exact same response in another newsgroup is important. There
is no point in me replying at all if the information has already been
conveyed by someone in another newsgroup.

In other words, if I can see all replies in a single thread, I will
save time. The OP will save time by not having to check multiple
threads and read redundant replies.

Separate posts mean that some of my replies, and replies to replies,
will not get shared. The entire point of Usenet is to share
information. It's obviously detrimental to the idea of sharing
information to have information on one specific question show up on
one newsgroup and not another.

If people filter you out for such "transgressions", they'll filter you
out for other meaningless transgressions. If people would read your
post in one group, they'd read it in another - but they _don't_ need
to see it a second time.

R