-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 ,--[ On Mon, Jun 30, 2008 at 09:58:31AM +0530, shirish wrote: | Hi all, | Another thing I know both the articles are written from usenet | perspectives. From what little I know usenet are the forefathers of | modern mailing lists, so the above should apply to mailing lists as | well I guess.
Cross-posting and multi-posting make difference in newsgroup posting. I don't know how they're relevant in terms of mailing list. If you post a message to multiple newsgroups, by mentioning multiple newsgroups separated by commas, in 'Newsgroups' header, this is cross-posting. There is a 'Followup-To' header, where you specify, on which newsgroup, you want follow-ups to the posting. If you post a single message to multiple newsgroups, by creating separate postings, this is multi-posting. In case of cross-posting, only single message is submitted, which will show up in all posted newsgroups. If you've already read that message in one newsgroup, it'll be marked as _read_ for you by your NUA (news user agent), so if you came across that message in other newsgroups also, that message will already marked as _read_ . The cross-posting won't have desired effect (similar to newsgroups) in case of mailing lists, as these mailing lists operate in a different way from newsgroups. Although the only benefit with cross-posting in terms of mailing lists is that you get messages from different lists with same 'Message-ID' header. It depends on your MUA to figure out that whether these messages are cross-postings or not. HTH - -- ·-- ·- ···· ·--- ·- ···- ·- ·--·-· --· -- ·- ·· ·-·· ·-·-·- -·-· --- -- -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.9 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAkhonXwACgkQHy+EEHYuXnTTlACeO1jTxDPB7Y1k/tNREYg5dDD3 A0QAoKDrcYUcQXGbKHT35TjB/ChmqIlu =7eDU -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ ilugd mailinglist -- [email protected] http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd Archives at: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.user-groups.linux.delhi http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/
