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Posted by Seniors Guide to Computers on February 21, 2007, 7:22 am
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>> Please check this out and let me know if you think this would be a
>> good firewall and it is free:
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> <snip - duplicate post but *multiposted* instead of crossposted>
>
> When submitting the SAME post to MULTIPLE newsgroups, cross-post! Do not
> multipost multiple but *separate* copies of the same message. General rule
> of courtesy is that the newsgroups must be RELATED and do not include more
> than 4 newsgroups (if you can actually find that many that are related and
> NOT a parent of another group).
>
> http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/usenet/xpost.html
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crossposting
>
> A point not made is that N multiposted copies will consume N times the
> space for separate copies of the same post. Crossposted messages have
> just *one* copy on the server and the groups simply have pointers back to
> that same single copy. Multiposting wastes disk space on the server. Yes,
> your post is small but remember that you consume N times the space on one
> server and then do so on all the newsgroups servers worldwide.
>
> Crossposting helps readers in one group see the replies from those in
> another RELATED newsgroup to which you copied your post. That way, they
> don't waste their time duplicating similar replies that already exist.
Uh-oh! More newsgroup police!
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