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From: will.dockery@gmail.com (W.Dockery)
Newsgroups: alt.arts.poetry.comments,rec.arts.poems
Subject: Re: My crossposting
Date: Sat, 1 Feb 2025 19:21:39 +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.

Anything new on the poetry scene up in your neck of the woods?