Subject: Re: Help! How do you send to more than one newsgroup?

From: Josh Gilliam <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 1 Feb 1997 00:16:16 -0800 (PST)

On Fri, 31 Jan 1997 18:14:45 -0500, in message
 <[email-masked]>,
 AJF <[email-masked]> wrote:

> I want to send a post to several "comp" newsgroups.  How do I do that.
> Can I use wildcards?  If I wanted to post to all newsgroups that start
> with "comp" how would I do it without typing in each one.  I tried using
> *.comp.* and it didn't work.  Any help GREATLY appreciated.  Thanks,

This is not supported in any news client I've seen, nor should it. The
action which you describe is against news netiquette and would no 
doubtably lead to the removal of your account at your internet provider
for spamming.

Josh Gilliam -- [email-masked]

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From: Mike Brudenell <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 3 Feb 1997 10:06:42 +0000 (GMT)

> I want to send a post to several "comp" newsgroups.  How do I do that.

I was about to explain how to cross-post your article to more than one
(appropriate!) newsgroup, but....

> *.comp.* and it didn't work.  Any help GREATLY appreciated.  Thanks,

...you just blew it by revealing you just want to send out spam.

Sorry!

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Mike Brudenell                                         <[email-masked]>
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