On Fri, 13 Sep 2024 11:09:42 -0700, Retro Guy <
retroguy@novabbs.com> wrote:
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.
seems that cross-posting might work better in closely-related newsgroups,
e.g. alt.atheism,alt.fan.nietzsche,alt.fan.voltaire,alt.god,talk.atheism
were it not for the pandemic usenet troll farm floods which have plagued
every busy newsgroup since the "eternal september" holocaust--and became
even worse once google stamped out dejanews and eventually put all other troll-friendly servers to shame! so no matter whether mass cross-posting continues unabated or not won't affect the vast majority of these groups
one iota; like the song says "i could be wrong now, but i don't think so"
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.
i'm only a retired hobbyist with no formal education beyond grade school,
so what little i might know about this subject is only though experience;
for serious users (not trolls) cross-posting may work fine? c'est la vie
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