Guest guest Posted October 23, 2006 Report Share Posted October 23, 2006 CROSSPOSTING is something I had not paid a lot of attention to until recently ;-) I noticed one interesting thing that I was not aware of or paying attention to! There are two kinds of responders, those that use the web-interface (like yours truly) and those who receive webmessages by email and hit return from their email program (Outlook etc). When replies are sent from web-interface you only post your reply to the website (mailing list). But when you reply through your email program you must be careful because your reply may go to all the lists that the original post you are responding to was sent to! If A posts a message to five forums And B responds to that <one> message! If B was using webposting, he would his posting would be going only to the webforum he is responding to. If B was using email like outlook, his posting would be going to all the forums that A was posting his email message to! If B is not a member of those forums, his reply will not be posted at all those site. If he is a member his replies would be posted as potential cross postings! So Caveat! 'A' might be doing this innocently or out of lack of internet understanding ... Ah Puzzle solved! What a good feeling!! RR Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted October 23, 2006 Report Share Posted October 23, 2006 Beyond Z's comprehension. But thats what puzzles are! , "Rohiniranjan" <jyotish_vani wrote: > > CROSSPOSTING is something I had not paid a lot of attention to until > recently ;-) > > I noticed one interesting thing that I was not aware of or paying > attention to! > > There are two kinds of responders, those that use the web-interface > (like yours truly) and those who receive webmessages by email and hit > return from their email program (Outlook etc). > > When replies are sent from web-interface you only post your reply to > the website (mailing list). > > But when you reply through your email program you must be careful > because your reply may go to all the lists that the original post you > are responding to was sent to! > > If A posts a message to five forums > > And B responds to that <one> message! > > If B was using webposting, he would his posting would be going only > to the webforum he is responding to. > > If B was using email like outlook, his posting would be going to all > the forums that A was posting his email message to! > > If B is not a member of those forums, his reply will not be posted at > all those site. If he is a member his replies would be posted as > potential cross postings! So Caveat! > > 'A' might be doing this innocently or out of lack of internet > understanding ... > > Ah Puzzle solved! What a good feeling!! > > RR > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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