From owner-freebsd-chat Mon Apr 19 18:56: 8 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from quackerjack.cc.vt.edu (quackerjack.cc.vt.edu [198.82.160.250]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 590A514E15 for ; Mon, 19 Apr 1999 18:56:03 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jobaldwi@vt.edu) Received: from sable.cc.vt.edu (sable.cc.vt.edu [128.173.16.30]) by quackerjack.cc.vt.edu (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id VAA01465; Mon, 19 Apr 1999 21:53:13 -0400 (EDT) Received: from john.baldwin.cx (jobaldwi.campus.vt.edu [198.82.67.63]) by sable.cc.vt.edu (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id VAA15331; Mon, 19 Apr 1999 21:53:12 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.3 [p0] on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <19990420105336.B40482@lemis.com> Date: Mon, 19 Apr 1999 21:53:12 -0400 (EDT) From: John Baldwin To: Greg Lehey Subject: Re: Cross Posting... Cc: FreeBSD Chat , Bill Swingle , Marius Bendiksen , Amancio Hasty Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On 20-Apr-99 Greg Lehey wrote: > On Monday, 19 April 1999 at 2:26:14 -0700, Amancio Hasty wrote: >> Hi, >> >> Yes, I agree that cross posting is bad and that in general people should not >> do it . > > In fact, cross posting is good. The bad thing is that people on both > lists get multiple copies, and that's a mail implementation issue. > No, I don't know how to solve it (if it were easy, it would already > have been solved). But we shouldn't lose sight of the fact that > people who cross-post often do it because they believe that it's > relevant to each list. It's one thing to cross post an announcement. It's another thing to cross post an extended conversation of 20+ messages. It's that stuff that is bothersome, and expensive to some folks. > Greg --- John Baldwin -- http://members.freedomnet.com/~jbaldwin/ PGP Key: http://members.freedomnet.com/~jbaldwin/pgpkey.asc "Power Users Use the Power to Serve!" - http://www.freebsd.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message