On Fri, 16 Mar 2007 11:40:10 -0400, "Mortimer Schnerd, RN"
mschnerdatcarolina.rr.com wrote:

George wrote:
There is nothing wrong with sensible crossposting. What ticks people off
is when people shotgun 10 groups at the same time.


No, what ****es people of is when the posted topic has nothing to do with your
group except in the most remote way.

You're both right. That's what George meant by shotgun.

Generally there are only 2 or 3 aspects to a post that relate to
groups with 3 different topics, but sometimes people add several
groups all on the same topic, like alt.english.usage,
alt.usage.english, alt.englishusage . Often only one or two of these
have much traffic and the others are empty, so there are no real
consequences.

Are there newsreaders that will filter out crossposted posts, and can
you set the maximum number of ngs that can be listed? If so, 3 is
generally a good number, maybe 4.