Re: Usenet reader

On Fri, 13 Sep 2024 11:09:42 -0700, Retro Guy <retroguy@novabbs.com> wrote:

On Fri, 13 Sep 2024 18:04:13 +0100, D wrote:

On Fri, 13 Sep 2024 16:07:27 -0000 (UTC), Andrew <andrew@spam.net> wrote:

Stan didn't mention which newsgroup was double posted so I looked at
<https://tinyurl.com/nova-news-software-readers> 
And found one double post here:
<https://www.novabbs.com/computers/article-flat.php?id=3125&group=news.software.readers#3125>
But there's much more useful information in the Android doublepost.
<https://tinyurl.com/nova-comp-mobile-android> 
Specifically located here:
<https://www.novabbs.com/computers/article-flat.php?id=54785&group=comp.mobile.android#54785>
The OP has a half dozen Android newsreaders to test, where all I ask is  
what I ask of everyone (including myself), which is an update in the end
so that everyone benefits from every question ever posed to these ngs.

 
not everyone reading in one newsgroup is necessarily reading in another;
cross-posting is anathema to common sense--and to netiquette in general!
better to post articles to only one newsgroup at a time but never xpost* 

>
If you multipost or crosspost, the message should show up in all the groups
you've posted to. Why would crossposting not show a message in each group
it is crossposted? You may hit limits of number of groups, but you usually
only want 2 or 3 at most anyway. Multiposting just causes readers to show
the same message unread in each group, even though you have already read
it.

seems that cross-posting might work better in closely-related newsgroups,
e.g. alt.atheism,alt.fan.nietzsche,alt.fan.voltaire,alt.god,talk.atheism
were it not for the pandemic usenet troll farm floods which have plagued
every busy newsgroup since the "eternal september" holocaust--and became
even worse once google stamped out dejanews and eventually put all other
troll-friendly servers to shame! so no matter whether mass cross-posting
continues unabated or not won't affect the vast majority of these groups
one iota; like the song says "i could be wrong now, but i don't think so"

some readers, especially the younger generation, do not use anything but
smartphones; whereas many seniors (e.g. myself) have never used anything 
but desktop/laptop computers since the xt, trs-80, etc., were in diapers
*hint: to satisfy "net-cop" trolls, make each seperately posted message
slightly different as with this reply e.g. by adding a few extra spaces 
and/or actually note to where it was also posted...(comp.mobile.android)

>
I would assume that if your server blocks multiposts, and you want to
multipost, use a different server.
These are my opinions, and my opinions have been known to be wrong at
times.

i'm only a retired hobbyist with no formal education beyond grade school,
so what little i might know about this subject is only though experience;
for serious users (not trolls) cross-posting may work fine? c'est la vie