RE: TECHWR-L Digest, Vol 27, Issue 30

["Kelly Keck" <kkeck -at- imagine-one -dot- com>]

Suzanne Chiles wrote:

 > Multi-posting is much preferred over cross-posting

And Joyce replied:

>I've had the experience of multi-posting to a few lists and getting
>flak from people who are on 2 or 3 of the lists, and who therefore 
>received my message multiple times. Their suggestion? "Why don't you
>cross-post instead? That's much better netiquette."

>I guess you can't keep everyone happy...

Nope.  Doesn't matter what you do, you can't keep everyone happy.  (If you
give people no reason to complain whatsoever, those who get their joy from
whining will be disappointed.)

I'd still lean toward multi-posting rather than cross-posting.
Cross-posting is only helpful to those who are on multiple lists, *and* not
on digest (because if you receive the digest format, you'll still receive
multiple messages, *and* remember not to hit reply-all.  Multi-posting seems
to make things less messy for everyone else.

By the way, I'm glad to know the distinction, since I'd never heard the term
"multi-post," but have seen "cross-posted" used a couple times for what I
know now was really a "multi-post."   

Kelly K.


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