Ken Brod wrote:

And the person to whom I responded did *not* post exactly like the
cross-posting original poster; he cross-posted to every other group *but*
this one. He obviously thinks it's okay to clutter up other groups with his
garbage, but not his own.

Peter cross-posted to all the other groups and not to this one because he
knows that the original poster does not frequent this one and would not see
the message if it appeared here. Peter, on the other hand, does not frequent
the others, so he doesn't know where the other poster is. It is also highly
desireable that other posters in those groups see this complaint.

And there's no difference to a reader whether a message is cross-posted or
individually posted to several groups. In fact, some browsers will mark a
message as read in all newgroups once someone reads it in one if it's
cross-posted, so cross-posting is preferable for this type of post.

Peter behaved exactly as he should have.

George Patterson
My mother is 82 and she still doesn't need glasses.
Drinks right out of the bottle.