On Wed, 18 Jul 2012 22:05:02 +0000 (UTC), Doug Miller
wrote:

"Stormin Mormon" wrote in news:xqFNr.183795
:

What's the advantage of cross posting?

1. You need to post the article only once, instead of multiple times.

2. Replies to cross-posted articles are, by default, also cross-posted to the same groups
as the original article. A reply to a multi-posted article is posted only to the one group in
which the original post appeared and the reply was made -- which is why you can't see my
post recommending shoes for you in *this* group, and neither can anyone else. If you had
cross-posted, you'd be able to see it here.

3. It eliminates the useless downloading of identical articles. If I read a cross-posted article
in one group, my newsreader knows that it's "read" for *all* groups in the cross-post, and
won't download it or display it to me when I read the other groups. That's how I knew you
had multi-posted instead of cross-posted: when I saw the same article here.

4. Since all replies to a cross-post are visible to anyone reading *any* of the groups in the
cross-post, you're more likely to get useful replies to a question if you cross-post it.

I can add news groups to my reply, easy enough.

You *should* have added them to the original post.

He could study the RFC(s). Those are written by smart people.

.... "In computer network engineering, a Request for Comments (RFC) is
a memorandum published by the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF)
describing methods, behaviors, research, or innovations applicable to
the working of the Internet and Internet-connected systems"

I've even pointed out his top posting (and many others here). I got
"plonked" by him. He does not like ADVICE or opinions.

Not a single RFC was written Al Gore.