On Sun, 21 Oct 2007 20:40:57 -0600, "Chris Shearer Cooper" <chrisnews@sc3.net> wrote in soc.genealogy.computing: >Sorry, what's the difference between multiposting and crossposting? multiposting : posting the same message to many newsgroups (in this context) separately, i.e. the message in newsgroup A has a different time stamp compared to the message in newsgroup B and the line newsgroups has one newsgroup only. crossposting : posting the same message to many newsgroups but as a single message. In this case: The original message has : Newsgroups: soc.genealogy.computing The messages by Steve and the next ones : Newsgroups: soc.genealogy.computing,alt.genealogy,soc.genealogy.britain Some newsservers (on the web) have no mean allowing crossposting. Denis -- 0 Denis Beauregard - /\/ Les Français d'Amérique du Nord - www.francogene.com/genealogie--quebec/ |\ French in North America before 1721 - www.francogene.com/quebec--genealogy/ / | Maintenant sur cédérom, début à 1765 oo oo Now on CD-ROM, beginnings to 1765

In article <p64oh394ccsja0d1f371hgv7vrr8l922vr@4ax.com>, Denis Beauregard <denis.b-at-francogene.com@fr.invalid> wrote: > multiposting : posting the same message to many newsgroups (in this > context) separately, i.e. the message in newsgroup A has a different > time stamp compared to the message in newsgroup B and the line > newsgroups has one newsgroup only. > crossposting : posting the same message to many newsgroups but as a > single message. The important thing for me is that, if you cross-post to two or three groups that I take - I see only one posting. If you multi-post I see them all (wastefully). But!! It is rare for any post to need cross-posting at all (and should never be multi-posted). On the very rare occasions where a cross-posting is necessary it is *never* an appropriate thing to be done by anyone who doesn't know there way around very well. [follow ups set to sgb only] -- John