Subject: crosspost

From: Moez Bali <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 3 Feb 1997 21:40:49 +0100

hi pine users,
I'm a new user and of course this will be the 10000 time you see these 
questions :

- can I put the name of newsgroup in the adress book ?

- how can I post my message to two or more newsgroup ?

thank in advance

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From: "Robin S. Socha" <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 5 Feb 1997 01:08:09 +0100 (CET)

>I'm a new user and of course this will be the 10000 time you see these

Good guess...

  >- can I put the name of newsgroup in the adress book ?
  
Read the FAQ.
  
  >- how can I post my message to two or more newsgroup ?

Not at all... unless you've checked the message with the guys from
net-abuse. If you still feel like doing it nonetheless, be prepared for
nasty surprises.

Cheers,
Robin "Spam me and die" Socha

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From: Mike Brudenell <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 5 Feb 1997 09:20:18 +0000 (GMT)

>   >- can I put the name of newsgroup in the adress book ?

You can find this on the World-Wide Web at:

	http://www.cac.washington.edu/pine/QandA/index.html

Other information about Pine can be found at the Pine Information Centre:

	http://www.cac.washington.edu/pine/

> net-abuse. If you still feel like doing it nonetheless, be prepared for

Ummm.... there are, of course, quite legitimate cases for posting an
article to two or more newsgroups.  (I do it with our local newsgroups
when trying to move an off-group thread from one group to another.)

To post an article to more than one newsgroup just list the newsgroup
names with commas in between (this information is in Pine's built-in help
somewhere, but apparently not in the obvious place: the description of the
"Newsgroups:" header -- I'll suggest it to the Pine Team).

However as Robin says, do use this facility wisely and in moderation:
people don't like seeing the same article cross-posted gazillions of
times.

Cheers,

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Mike Brudenell                                         <[email-masked]>
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