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Mike Marlow wrote:
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Note crossposting and follow-ups.


No - screw the crossposting. Why would you go and start that crap?
Please
don't take up on this crossposting stuff. Kindly keep comments
within your
own group.

What do you mean by 'your own group'? I do not own any newsgroups.

It is simply a matter of nettiquette to post articles in a newsgroup
where they are on topic.


I meant that folks in alt.politics should discuss things in alt.politics and
folks in rec.woodworking should discuss things in rec.woodworking. If one
wants to discuss things with another group they should go to that group to
hold that discussion. It is not, nor has it ever been netiquette to cross
post as you did. It only invites an invasion of conversations that are not
relevant to the group in question. If what you were trying to accomplish
was to take a political discussion away from a woodworking group (not
necessarily a bad idea all by itself...), then it works better to get the
participants to go there. Opening this group up to a deluge from
alt.politics by cross posting there does nothing in the name of netiquette.

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-Mike-