Re: No fault cell phone law

The Real Bev <bashley101@gmail.com> wrote:

On 3/17/24 1:44 PM, Frank Slootweg wrote:

The Real Bev <bashley101@gmail.com> wrote:

On 3/17/24 9:27 AM, Frank Slootweg wrote:

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   The Real Bev severely cut the 'Newsgroups: line (without saying so).
The original list apparently was:
 
Newsgroups: comp.mobile.android,misc.phone.mobile.iphone,alt.fan.rush-limbaugh,alt.society.liberalism,talk.politics.guns
 
   I think that says enough.

 
Mea culpa, I usually mention that other newsgroups were snipped.

 
   When you do, please also note *which* newsgroups were snipped, so
readers are informed, especially about troll-groups like this.

 
No.  The only readers will be those in the group that *I* am reading,
and those are the only ones I'm concerned with.  It's sufficient to say
"other groups snipped".  If anyone is interested they can look at
previous postings.

  Looking up the posting to which you responded may not be easy if
people - like me - have killed crossposts to these troll groups.

  I had to look at the 'source' of your post, look up the last
message-ID in the 'References:' header and the lookup that message-id on
<http://al.howardknight.net/>. For *me*, that's not too hard, but many -
and probably even most - people don't know how to do that.

  So listing the groups you deleted is the decent thing to do.

I snip for two reasons.  The most important one is that I refuse to
encourage flamage, which is apparently the intent of many original
posts.  The second is that Thunderbird refuses to send to more than one
newsserver at a time.  Since I have no way of knowing (without spending
far more time than is warranted) which groups come from which servers, I
snip the ones I'm not involved in.

 
   Crossposting doesn't involve multiple news*servers*, only multiple
news*groups*. However it is possible that your newsserver (Eternal
September) limits the number of groups in a crosspost. AFAIK, 4 is a
common limit. The OP was crossposted to 5 groups.

 
No idea, but I take TB's word for it. It doesn't make sense to me
either. Next time I'll try x-posting to all of them and quote the exact
error message.

  OK, we'll see.