On Mon, 13 Aug 2012 01:45:29 +1200, Chris Bannister wrote: > On Fri, Aug 10, 2012 at 03:05:56PM +0000, Camaleón wrote: >> On Fri, 10 Aug 2012 12:27:22 +0200, Francesco Pietra wrote: >> >> (please, don't cross-post without warning the users about it) > > Huh? Since when?
Since always (RFC1855¹): "3.1.2 Mailing List Guidelines (...) - When sending a message to more than one mailing list, especially if the lists are closely related, apologize for cross-posting." There is nothing bad with this act "per se" (unless you do abuse of it, of course), but when you cross-post a message to many different mailing lists, netiquette (and common sense) says you have to warn the users about it. > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crossposting > > "A crossposted message takes up less server storage space, and creates > less network traffic, than if individual messages had been posted to > multiple newsgroups." Thanks, the full Wikipedia article (and not just the small copy/paste chunk you sent) indeed expands, confirms and complements my POV. > You might be confusing cross posting with multi posting; multi posting > is frowned upon. No, I have not confused both things. > Besides, it is obvious in the headers whether the message is cross > posted, the warning is hence redundant, extra typing, and therefore > unnecessary. Not that obvious! Not all of us use the same kind of readers nor have the same configuration settings nor have that information expanded in front of our eyes. ¹http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc1855 Greetings, -- Camaleón -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
