<hes@unity.ncsu.edu> writes:
>
> Pam Greene writes:
> >Anthony Argyriou <anthony@alphageo.com> wrote:
> >
> >>Unless there are news servers that automatically kill multiply
> >>cross-posted articles coming in from other news servers.
> >
> >There are many such, apparently including some pretty central servers
> >that refuse to send them downstream. I found it to be enough of a
> >problem that I quit posting to two relevant groups, because with five
> >in the header the FAQ wasn't reaching much of anywhere.
>
> To me, the big reason to go through our process is to get the FAQ
> posted in news.answers and also archived.
>
> But couldn't getting it into additional groups be done quite easily by
> simply also posting directly to those news.groups? This would decrease
> the cross-posting (at a *slight* extra cost in network traffic.)
What one of my readers suggested to me was posting a "pointer" article in
the other News groups referring to the moderated postings. I'm trying
that tentatively to make sure that nobody finds the process extremely
offensive.
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