On 11/9/2013 1:33 AM, Stéphane Grégoire wrote: > Hi, > > David E. Ross a tapoté, le 09/11/2013 04:54: >> On the news.mozilla.org news server, I subscribed to mozilla.test but >> not to mozilla.test.multimedia. I cross-posted a message to both. > > This is not a usenet server, please make the same test. > > >
On the Usenet news server reader.albasani.net (where I already had an account), I subscribed to newsgroup alt.test.a but not to alt.test.d. I cross-posted a test message to both. My test message appeared in alt.test.a. After cross-posting the test message, I subscribed to alt.test.a but not to alt.test.d on the Usenet news server news.eternal-september.org (where I already had an account). My test message appeared there, too. I then subscribed to alt.test.d on both servers. My test message appeared in alt.test.d on both servers. Thus: 1. You do not have to subscribe to a Usenet newsgroup to cross-post to it. 2. Cross-posted messages will propagate -- if the servers permit -- from the Usenet server where you posted to other Usenet servers. No, I did not test for cross-posting to newsgroups where I was not subscribed to any of them. Among many Usenet users, that would be considered abuse of Usenet. I strongly recommend that, if you cross-post to a newsgroup where you are not subscribed, you set Followup-To: for your message to a newsgroup where you are subscribed. You should note in your message that you are setting Followup-To:. My testing used Thunderbird 24.1.0, not SeaMonkey. However, I believe the mail-news code in SeaMonkey for posting and cross-posting is the same as in Thunderbird. -- David E. Ross <http://www.rossde.com/> Where does your elected official stand? Which politicians refuse to tell us where they stand? See the non-partisan Project Vote Smart at <http://votesmart.org/>. _______________________________________________ support-seamonkey mailing list [email protected] https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
