Top Document: Welcome to austin.announce [periodic posting of newsgroup guidelines] Previous Document: FAQ: Why should I use austin.announce? Nobody reads it! See reader questions & answers on this topic! - Help others by sharing your knowledge The guidelines say ``no cross-posting'', and we mean it. We often are asked why. The most frequently selected cross-posting target is austin.general. That's one where the rule holds hard and fast. Cross-posting to austin.general doesn't bring you any benefits (c.f. the "Why should I use" question). It just adds clutter to an already congested newsgroup. The whole purpose of this group is to move announcements out of austin.general. If you go cross-posting back there, you've defeated the entire purpose of this group. There are additional reasons why we do not accept cross-postings. For instance, there are technical difficulties with handling cross-posted messages to moderated groups. Many moderators (including yours truly) discourage them, because they create added hassle and work for moderators. We will, on occasion, bend this rule when the cross-posting is to a highly appropriate group. We will not accept cross-postings that appear to be a scattershot attempt to reach every news system on the face of the planet. Please note that re-posting is something different than cross-posting. Cross-posting is when you specify a comma-delimited list of groups in your Newsgroups: line. When you do that, only a single message is transmitted, and that one message gets placed into all the cross-posted groups. Re-posting is sending your message multiple times to multiple groups. Re-posting is an outright violation of Usenet netiquette. The best you can expect from a re-posting to austin.announce is a stern lecture from the moderator. :-) ------------------------------ End of austx-ann Guidelines *************************** ___________________________________________________________________________ austin.announce is the MODERATED newsgroup for announcements of interest to Austin-area Usenet readers. See <http://frenzy.austin.tx.us/austin.announce/> for information on submitting announcements to this group. n submitting announcements to this group. User Contributions:Top Document: Welcome to austin.announce [periodic posting of newsgroup guidelines] Previous Document: FAQ: Why should I use austin.announce? Nobody reads it! Single Page [ Usenet FAQs | Web FAQs | Documents | RFC Index ] Send corrections/additions to the FAQ Maintainer: austin-announce-request@frenzy.austin.tx.us
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