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From: George J. Dance@novabbs.com (George J. Dance)
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Subject: Re: My crossposting
Date: Sat, 1 Feb 2025 13:41:20 +0000
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On Fri, 31 Jan 2025 23:53:49 +0000, David Dalton wrote:

> On Jan 29, 2025, W.Dockery wrote
> (in article<cfdac30a4d3491222db88b2e095c9c99@www.novabbs.com>):
>
>> David Dalton wrote:
>>
>>> NancyGene wrote:
>>>
>>> > Mr. Dalton appears to think that his name should appear in many
>>> groups.
>>> > Blame
>>> > it on the moon.
>>> Most of the groups I post to are ultra low traffic, which is partly
>>> why I crosspost to many of them, to gather the few readers
>>> in all of them. However I acknowledge that this group and
>>> alt.atheism are higher traffic. But I did not intend, nor has it
>>> happened, that the crosspost result in a flame war between
>>> the groups. Also perhaps I should have been more careful
>>> to gather like groups, e.g. this group, rec.arts.poems,
>>> alt.music.lyrics, and rec.music.makers.songwriting, rather
>>> than the crosspost I made to five groups I have been
>>> “hanging out on” plus this group that I recently returned to.
>>>
>>> I will try to be more selective in any future crossposts.
>>
>> Hello there David, long time no see.
>>
>> 😏
>
> Hi there Will.

And a big hi from me, too, Dr. Dalton, to both you and your wife, the
better poet (I mean, better than both of us. 😏)

I don't think that NG ever understood the point of crossposting, as they
(their preferred pronoun) posted on usenet only through Google groups
(which stopped allowing it before NG ever showed up). I don't think they
ever realized that posting to usenet was any different from posting on a
web forum; they did not understand that each posted message was
bandwidth travelling all over the country to multiple servers, and that
the point of crossposting was to keep it down, because they had no
conception of that ecwn happening.

To avoid trolls, I used to post individual copies of the same message to
different groups; but not only was that more work for me, but it was
also putting more strain on usenet itself. So I've ended up going back
to crossposting myself, at the explicit request of the NovaBBS head
honcho, RetroGuy, himself.

In short: there is no reason to think you have to defend, justify, or
excuse crossposting here. On the contrary, crossposting is the
reasonable default.