On 11/10/13 3:11 AM +0900, David E. Ross wrote:
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.
Then it is a definite bug in SeaMonkey. I categorically was unable to
post to both mozilla.support.seamonkey and mozilla.general without being
subscribed to both. SeaMonkey returned an error that it could not
autosave the document while I was writing, even though the save is done
in local folders. Subscribing to mozilla.general cleared the problem and
enabled the post to proceed as usual.
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