Re: No fault cell phone law

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:

[...]

   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.

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.

I do apologize for not giving notice, though.

    No worries, just pay attention on the crosswalk when I'm approaching!

Always!  Well, you have to actually be IN it, not just approaching.
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Cheers, Bev
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    This is not a drill."                     --MWilliams