Chris Bannister wrote: > Huh? Since when? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crossposting > > "A crossposted message takes up less server storage space, and creates > less network traffic, than if individual messages had been posted to > multiple newsgroups."
Of course that applies to usenet newsgroups but does not apply to mailing lists such as debian-user. Mailing lists will generate a new message with the same message-id for every message regardless of whether it is crossposted to several mailing lists or not. There is no savings of server space as there is in a usenet group. It should be obvious that mailing lists are simply managing email. Sorry but the ability to share a posting across newsgroups is a detail of a usenet newsgroup and trying to apply it to a mailing list which is something completely different is missing the mark by a mile. This detail is not dimished by having gateways that copy mailing list traffic to a newsgroup and the reverse. The primary item is the mailing list. The newsgroup is a derivative of it. Bob
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