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From: zeeff@b-tech.ann-arbor.mi.us (Jon Zeeff)
Subject: Re: Just how useful is crossposting?
Message-ID: <1989Nov15.141902.6408@b-tech.ann-arbor.mi.us>
Reply-To: zeeff@b-tech.ann-arbor.mi.us (Jon Zeeff)
Organization: Branch Technology, Ann Arbor, MI
References: <47326@looking.on.ca> <25607AED.662@ateng.com>
Date: Wed, 15 Nov 89 14:19:02 GMT

>>I would think that perhaps if an original article is crossposted, we should
>>get down to it and insist the followups be in one group.
>
>Not insist.  Make the default, yes, but not insist.

Don't insist, in fact, make it difficult to do.  If an article is 
posted to a set of reasonable groups, followups to it *should* stay in 
all the groups (at least until the discussion wanders so far off track 
that it no longer belongs in some of the groups).  It's very annoying 
to have either disappearing threads or have to go track down and 
subscribe to a newsgroup you are not generally interested to find the 
responses to some article.  

What problem are you trying to fix?

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Branch Technology  <zeeff@b-tech.ann-arbor.mi.us>
