OK, I filed a bug about needing the ability to cross post.

This is just an unecessary hindrance to the occasional need to cross 
post. See bug:

Mozilla sould NOT prohibit Cross-Posting
http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=77147


Neil Nelson wrote:

> I was attempting to reply to a post cross-posted to four
> newsgroups on Usenet and obtained a message from Mozilla
> saying I could only post to one newsgroup at a time.  I
> noticed in the ground rules at
> 
> http://www.mozilla.org/community.html
> 
> that one should only post to one newsgroup at a time and
> expect that this ground rule has been coded into Mozilla.
> 
> So I replied to the cross-posted message in my usual
> newsgroup and have received no response from the prior
> poster who very likely should have responded if he had
> seen my post.  It is likely he is looking at a newsgroup
> different than mine in the cross-post list.  And so the
> result is that people from two different newsgroups are
> not having a useful discussion that would otherwise take
> place without this restriction.  My impression is that
> this restriction for Usenet newsgroups is excessive.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Neil Nelson
> 
> 


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Regards,

Peter Lairo


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