Oops, we're continuing to crosspost this thread too :( On Wed, Sep 04, 2002, Diego Iastrubni wrote about "Corss posting (was Re: Kvim)": > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Debian-il <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>.... > two list located on israel. Please....
There's another reason why crossposting to two lists like linux-il and debian-il, or linux-il and ivrix-discuss, is annoying: These two lists - debian-il and ivrix-discuss were both created to discuss issues that could have been conceivably been discussed on linux-il but were drowned in the general noise in this list. So many posts in debian-il and ivrix-discuss could be crossposted to linux-il too. But why do that? Most (?) people who are interested in those issues (Hebrew or Debian) are already members of that seperate list. If you think that this is *not* true, you can just ignore the smaller lists and post only to linux-il... Crossposting has, or will, almost destroy the usefullness of "splinter" mailing lists like ivrix-discuss or debian-il, which is a shame because the general linux-il is too high-volume (30 messages a day, in the last month) for many people who are just interested in more specific issues (such as Hebrew or Debian, in this case). > next time if you want to post such mails, do it separatly. One for each list, > remember some of us dont have fast internet connection and do not have to get > all those postings twise. Maybe I'm missing something, but what will that gain you? Assuming you're subscribed to both lists (otherwise you wouldn't be getting each posting twice), you'd still get the original post twice, and then you might get two separate long threads on exactly the same issue (unless exactly the same people subscribe to both lists)... In Usenet, separately posting to several groups was considered an even bigger sin than crossposting (RFC 1855, http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc1855.txt). -- Nadav Har'El | Thursday, Sep 5 2002, 28 Elul 5762 [EMAIL PROTECTED] |----------------------------------------- Phone: +972-53-245868, ICQ 13349191 |In Fortran, God is real unless declared http://nadav.harel.org.il |an integer. ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
