And Kent replied:
> No. This is where I disagree. I know how Usenet works :) and I would be
> extremely upset if someone started posting an FAQ in my newsgroup without
> my permission first. That is what happened here. If David had asked all
> the moderators first he probably would have received an OK. Then it would
> not have come as a suprise and iritated the moderators.
Just so. Moderators trade approvals for crossposts all the time,
and if done up-front and in advance, there's rarely a problem.
I co-moderate a newsgroup, and I once negligently approved an
article which was crossposted into another moderated group (even
though I, too, do know how Usenet works!), and that group's
moderator canceled it and scolded me, and rightly so.
Steve Summit
scs@eskimo.com