Message-ID: <3f00>
From: Chris Ho-Stuart
Subject: Re: Selling Bibles 🙂
Newsgroups: aus.religion.christian

[Material quoted here from previous articles

has been omitted at the author’s request.]

Actually, it is considered good netiquette to snip groups.

This is not about "relevance", and it does not remove the posts

of other people; it is purely about deciding where you want to

post.

It is good practice for a Usenet user to limit where they

send their messages.

I’m posting this to one group only; the only one to which

I am subscribed.

Crossposting on Usenet is possible, but should not be overused.

The recommended best practice is to include a "follow-up" line

when messages are cross posted, precisely so that subsequent

discussion is in one group only.

See

<http://www.cs.indiana.edu/docproject/zen/zen-1.0_6.html>

<http://www.cs.indiana.edu/docproject/zen/zen-1.0_toc.html#SEC52>

This is from "Zen and the Art of the Internet"; a standard

reference and guide for using the net responsibly and effectively.

See the section on crossposting.

Basically, crossposting is possible, but can easily be overused;

err on the side of caution. It is never a bad thing to pursue

further discussion in one group only.

Cheers — Chris