The usual definition of "crossposting" is adressing the same message
to more th an one recipient with the very same message. This is
considered lack of nettiquette on most mailing lists. One reason for
this is that it messes up people's mail filters by triggering several
all at once. If the same message is to be sent to different mailing
lists someone is subscribed to, they ought to open and address a new
message for each separate list.
I later saw Mr. Tekkie Dave's post to the jaws user list where he did
mention crossposting and asked whether or not it was ok to use the
"bcc" field for addressing messages.this would be ok on most lists
but I do not know how Mr. David interprets this for his lists.
So if in doubt, just address two different email messages to the
lists you want to post to and copy and paste the mesage text in the
respective body of the message. Nobody controls how many lists you
are subscribed to and, of course, it is absolutley noone's business
what message you post to which independent list as long as you send
separate messages to separate mailing lists.
hth
Doris
At 09:35 AM 10/6/2011 -0700, you wrote:
Hi, Mike,
Thanks very much for explaning what cross-posting is. I thought it
meant writing the same message to a bunch of different lists but now
I understand better what it means. I know there's something about
cross-posting in the guidelines.
Rosemarie
-----Original Message----- From: Mike & Barbara
Sent: Thursday, October 06, 2011 6:34 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [Blind-Computing] memo about the guidelines /
Concerning CrossPosting
Hi David;
In the future, you might want to explain to list members exactly what you
mean when you say, " Folks please stop trying to do this kind of thing. "
There are members of the Blind-Computing list that are are not on the
Jaws-Users list & won't see the email you posted there. I changed the
subject line in this message to reflect upon what you are asking people not
to do! For those that don't know what, Cross Posting, is;
Cross Posting is, trying to post the same message to both the
Blind-Computing & Jaws-Users lists' at the same time or, within seconds /
minutes of each other. I Hope this helped, somewhat anyways. Take care.
Mike
----- Original Message ----- From: David Ferrin
To: [email protected]
Sent: Thursday, October 06, 2011 6:12 AM
Subject: [Blind-Computing] memo about the guidelines
Folks please stop trying to do this kind of thing. The fact is this list
is
so huge at the present time that we have adopted the policy of simply
removing people who don't follow the guidelines. They are normally free to
return if they wish hopefully a little wiser but some times they choose
not
to come back. Either way going up to the server takes less time than
sitting
here composing messages such as what you are reading right now. The fact
is
we don't need the extra work, it's enough to read what comes across the
list
making sure the information exchanged is correct and on topic. Some times
we
still even take a moment to try and help out on here, also yes those of us
who run this monster need some answers once in a while as well. Thanks for
reading this and in advance for your continued cooperation.
David Ferrin
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