[fosscomm] Why are We Cross-posting ??

[Arun Khan]

On Tue, May 17, 2011 at 9:49 PM, Narendra Sisodiya
<narendra at narendrasisodiya.com> wrote:
> We are seeing an increasing trend of crossposting of email on most of the
> LUGs of India.

FYI/Announcement types x-posting is OK IMO.

> So can we stop this???

If the sender is a legit member on *all* the mailing lists how can you
stop him/her?

I searched for "mailman+crossposting" and found this to be somewhat
relevant - no solutions though:

<http://markmail.org/message/upzitcsursghtz3x#query:+page:1+mid:fq7wiqf7zmwrs3n2+state:results>

Maybe possible if *all* ILUG mailing lists are hosted on the same
mailman installation and changes made to mailman source code.

> we can choose one or create a FINAL mailing list for this purpose or BAN
> cross-posting in all LUGs.

I am on ILUG-Mumbai, Delhi, Chennai.  The x-posting issue on these
lists is not as bad as you say.  I don't know about the other ILUG
lists.    IMO, cross posting has it's place (see above).    Your OP is
a x-post also.

-- 
Arun Khan
A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text.
Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing?
A: Top-posting.
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