[colug-432] cross-posting history Re: Posting in Multiple Forums (was Re: Creative Labs SoundBlaster 16 PCI sequencer problems)

[Jeff Frontz]

Once "modern" newsreaders came along (like "rn") people on Usenet were
encouraged to cross-post (rather than post the same thing multiple
times, once to each group) because the newsreaders would follow along
and mark-as-read the same article in every subscribed newsgroup once
it was read in any of them.

Jeff


On Fri, Jun 24, 2011 at 7:55 PM, Richard Hornsby
<richardjhornsby at gmail.com> wrote:

> Old school rules, IIRC, from usenet days when people would crosspost to a bunch of groups. You didn't have to go visit a bunch of web forums - you could kind of say that if put in today's terms usenet "aggregated" (and distributed) the posts to other usenet servers - os.linux group on the roadrunner servers had the same messages as the group at OSU. It was very easy to xpost (post to more than one group), and very easy for ppl to see that you'd xposted - annoying everyone subscribed to more than one of the groups who got xposted to. Hence, crossposting is considered bad form - even rude.
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