[discuss] Cross posting WAS Re: [governance] [bestbits] Fwd: Heads up on Brazil meeting preparation

Thu Jan 9 11:16:59 UTC 2014

In message <c2c17c40-f115-4f61-82ef-1cb3aed9094c at email.android.com>, at 
11:17:58 on Thu, 9 Jan 2014, Nick Ashton-Hart <nashton at ccianet.org> 
writes
>May I request that the cross posting be discontinued? I am getting 
>three copies of an increasing proportion of /1net, BestBits and IGC 
>list traffic and I know I am far from alone.

Crossposting is also bad netiquette, because if someone does a "reply to 
all" then their postings to lists-for-which-they-don't-have-a- 
subscription will cause them to a bounce message, and also cause the 
moderators of those lists to have decide whether to accept a posting 
from a non-subscriber. That's being conservative in what you send.

Meanwhile I'm sure I'm not alone in using an email client which 
de-duplicates such inbound material, and only presents me with one copy. 
That's me being liberal in what I accept.

["sending-to" tidied up, and in the circumstances apologies for posting 
this message to two lists].
-- 
Roland Perry