SAPPHO@SRI-NIC.ARPA (Lynn Gazis) (03/11/89)
Jon Zeeff writes: > I think there are good reasons to continue in several groups. Very often there are not. For example, several months ago a message was cross-posted to soc.culture.greek, talk.politics.mideast, and soc.culture.china with certain comments about Greeks and Muslims and a couple of lines about Malaysia. The discussion continued in several newsgroups, about three more were added, and much bandwidth was wasted discussing, for example, Arab politics in soc.culture.china and soc.culture.greek, where such discussion doesn't belong. Another example: someone posted a request to maybe half a dozen newsgroups asking for information about religious holidays. Replies were cross-posted to all the original groups. Now I find information about Hindu and Muslim religious holidays interesting, but I don't really think it belongs on soc.culture.greek. I see a lot of such inappropriate cross-postings, and, while I don't want to rule out the possibility of carrying on a discussion in two groups, I would prefer asking people if they really want to continue cross-posting to six groups to the counter-proposal: > Make the newsreader strongly discourage changing Subject:, Followup-To:, > or Newsgroups: lines. If a discussion starts somewhere it should > probably remain there. Lynn Gazis-Sax sappho@sri-nic.arpa