I think everyone should just stop obsessing about the contents and "rules"
of everyone's posts. It's very simple, if you're not interested in it,
don't read it!

Peggy

"Melinda Meahan - remove TRASH to reply" wrote in
message ...
joy beeson wrote:

On Sun, 11 Apr 2004 04:26:44 GMT, Melinda Meahan - remove
TRASH to reply wrote:

And it's not acceptable to cross-post to multiple mailing lists.

The original meaning of "spam" as a verb referred to the
FAILURE to cross-post, thereby making it impossible to avoid
multiple exposures to something posted in two or more
groups.

Yes, but that is talking about *newsgroups*, not *mailing lists*.

(By the by, does your newsreader warn you when you are about
to respond to a crosspost? If it doesn't, get a new reader
at once!)

I miss the old days of using trn, where when you posted to a NG you
would get this warning about did you really need to send this to the NG
and was it worth taking up valuable bandwidth, however the warning was
phrased.


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