On 30-Jun-08, at 9:57 AM, shirish wrote: > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cross-post > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cross-posting > > I am confused, would my message be treated as cross-post as kenneth > says or > should it be a multi-post, the distinctions are not clear.
wikipedia is not a source of knowledge. It is a pointer to the sources of knowledge. It is not an encylopedia and does not permit original articles. Use wikipedia to find the sources and study the sources. If you check out usenet policies you will see: 1. same post to more than one list is a crosspost 2. announcements of interest to more than one list are justified 3. admin announcements where the admin handles more than one list is justified 4. any post that is expected to generate discussion should be confined to one list. If a crosspost for generating discussions or getting replies is made, it should be specified to which list the replies are to be sent. From this it follows that lists to which the crosspost is sent should have members in common. Hence it also follows that crossposts that generate discussions should not be sent to various LUG lists as they dont have a common membership. A cross post to freed.in and ilugd and possibly a sarai list could be justified. (incidentally I personally feel that references to wikipedia should be banned because it shows that the person referring has not done his homework.) -- regards Kenneth Gonsalves Associate, NRC-FOSS [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://nrcfosshelpline.in/code/ _______________________________________________ ilugd mailinglist -- ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd Archives at: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.user-groups.linux.delhi http://www.mail-archive.com/ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org/
