Checkride Checklist Question

Errm... XNews strongly discourages cross-posting when replying, and
that's a pretty popular program. There are more newsreaders in heaven
and on earth then perhaps are dreamed of in your philosophy, Pete. : )

That said, I prefer to leave cross-post newsgroups intact unless it's
an obvious mismatch. For example, I've seen posts to space groups that
were cross-posted to alt.test or alt.sex.barney.duct-tape and whatnot
or even *.callahans, where people are just trying to flood a newsgroup
with traffic.

A well judged pruning of x-post newsgroups is fine, it's the wholesale
clearcutting that's the problem.

Ben Hallert
PP-ASEL

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Errm... XNews strongly discourages cross-posting when replying, and
that's a pretty popular program. There are more newsreaders in heaven
and on earth then perhaps are dreamed of in your philosophy, Pete. : )

Okay, thank you. I guess since it's been many years since I last used a
wide variety of newsreaders, I have missed developments in the technology.
Still, "strongly discourages" does not sound to me as though the newsreader
prevents one from cross-posting, and even the behavior Dave mentions on the
part of Mozilla is not the same as what Jose claims (though it's probably
what he's actually running into, in spite of his vague descriptions
otherwise).

I will say that the Mozilla behavior is just dumb. Requiring a person to be
subscribed to a newsgroup to which they are cross-posting makes as little
sense as removing a cross-post newsgroup just because you don't read that
newsgroup (and for the same reason). However, it does shed light onto
Jose's problem: he's using Mozilla.

It's funny, for all the religious conversion going on to try to get people
to switch to Mozilla Firefox, you'd think it'd be a better program. I use
the browser component, as a stop-gap way for getting RSS feeds (until I have
time to explore other options), and the browser has WAY more problems in
day-to-day use than I ever have with IE (mostly render errors and
performance problems). Now I learn the newsreader is also broken. And
people call this an improvement? Right.

That said, I prefer to leave cross-post newsgroups intact unless it's
an obvious mismatch. [...]

I as well. Cross-posting certainly is abused, and I think it's well and
good to try to minimize it. But forcing a user to not cross-post makes
about as much as sense as, well...kicking all general aviation aircraft out
of 2000 square miles of airspace just because some airline jets got run into
some buildings.

A well judged pruning of x-post newsgroups is fine, it's the wholesale
clearcutting that's the problem.

Agreed. That's my point.

Pete