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From: Retro Guy <retroguy@novabbs.com>
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Subject: Re: Usenet reader
Date: Fri, 13 Sep 2024 11:09:42 -0700
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On Fri, 13 Sep 2024 18:04:13 +0100, D wrote:

> On Fri, 13 Sep 2024 16:07:27 -0000 (UTC), Andrew <andrew@spam.net> wrote: 
>>Stan didn't mention which newsgroup was double posted so I looked at
>> <https://tinyurl.com/nova-news-software-readers>  
>>And found one double post here: 
>> <https://www.novabbs.com/computers/article-flat.php?id=3125&group=news.software.readers#3125>
>>But there's much more useful information in the Android doublepost.
>> <https://tinyurl.com/nova-comp-mobile-android>  
>>Specifically located here:
>> <https://www.novabbs.com/computers/article-flat.php?id=54785&group=comp.mobile.android#54785>
>>The OP has a half dozen Android newsreaders to test, where all I ask is   
>>what I ask of everyone (including myself), which is an update in the end
>>so that everyone benefits from every question ever posed to these ngs. 
>   
> not everyone reading in one newsgroup is necessarily reading in another; 
> cross-posting is anathema to common sense--and to netiquette in general!
> better to post articles to only one newsgroup at a time but never xpost*  

If you multipost or crosspost, the message should show up in all the groups
you've posted to. Why would crossposting not show a message in each group
it is crossposted? You may hit limits of number of groups, but you usually
only want 2 or 3 at most anyway. Multiposting just causes readers to show
the same message unread in each group, even though you have already read
it.

> some readers, especially the younger generation, do not use anything but
> smartphones; whereas many seniors (e.g. myself) have never used anything  
> but desktop/laptop computers since the xt, trs-80, etc., were in diapers
>     
> *hint: to satisfy "net-cop" trolls, make each seperately posted message  
> slightly different as with this reply e.g. by adding a few extra spaces  
> and/or actually note to where it was also posted...(comp.mobile.android)

I would assume that if your server blocks multiposts, and you want to
multipost, use a different server.

These are my opinions, and my opinions have been known to be wrong at
times.