Re: Canal+ crash - Re: Annulation : Crosspost excessif

On Wed, 24 Jul 2024 17:42:51 +0200, Nicolas Paul Colin de Glocester <Master_Fontaine_is_dishonest@Strand_in_London.Gov.UK> wrote:

On Wed, 24 Jul 2024, D wrote:
"thank you for your reply . . ."
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Thanks likewise for replying politely.
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On Wed, 24 Jul 2024, D wrote:
"cross-posting to the usenet newsgroups may have seemed like a
good idea at the time, but the mondation of '93 aka "eternal september"
flooded usenet into the meslee; one or two cross-posted newsgroups may
seem reasonable to some, but posting articles separately, one group at
a time i.e. without cross-posting, makes better sense, irrespective of
what some have called "multi-posting" because not all usenet newsgroup
subscribers, contributors, lurkers, etc., are actually reading in more
than one of those included newsgroups; anyone can assign "follow-up to"
when replying to articles that were posted in one newsgroup to another
newsgroup (etiquette to announce follow-up in body of reply), so there
was never any need for the inherently awkward praxis of "cross-posting""
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Dict.cc and WWW.Merriam-Webster.com and a dictionary failed to explain
"mondation" to me and I did not look up "meslee".

it's archaic, e.g. l'vniuerselle mondation, l'vniuersel deluge, in
reference to the worldwide inundation better known as noah's flood;
plenty of old dictionaries on-line, for old french i've used these:

thresor de la langue (1606):
https://fr.wikisource.org/wiki/Thresor_de_la_langue_fran%C3%A7oise
https://artfl.atilf.fr/dictionnaires/TLF-NICOT/index.htm
e.g., look up the word "meslee" from the main page:
http://portail.atilf.fr/cgi-bin/dico1look.pl?strippedhw=meslee

dictionarium latinogallicum (1552):
https://la.wikisource.org/wiki/Liber:Dictionarium_latinogallicum_-_Estienne,_1552,_A-Ins.djvu
https://artfl.atilf.fr/dictionnaires/ESTIENNE/index.htm

Thanks for appreciating that I do not attempt to annoy you. I am in the
space industry as an ex-employee of the European Space Agency where we
believe that redundancy (backups) is an essential policy. I continue
during more than twenty years of USENET to think that cross-posting is
good. I rarely do it, because most USENET articles by me are suited for a
small number of newsgroups. For an example of a person who disagrees with
me, cf. a Java programmer many years ago.
Eternal September does not permit cross-posting to more than 3 newsgroups,
which I recently find to be too restrictive. But hey! Eternal September is
gratis and good. Not all USENET servers carry the same newsgroups.
Following upto just 1 newsgroup can deprive readers (who read the start of
a thread) of important contributions to a thread.
I refer you to the last paragraph of
news:0f0dc30e-a92d-364f-ed16-1247fb220b57@Strand_in_London.Gov.UK
With best regards,
N. C. P. de G.

probably myriads of usenet newsgroup subscribers have saved and shared
cherry-picked articles and perhaps entire archives from their favorite
newsgroups over these decades since usenet became popular . . . surely
governments do these things routinely, thus redundancy is to the nines