"David C. Barber" <da***@NOSPAMdbarber.comwrote in message
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I'll quit multi-posting when CLVB and CLBV are combined into one group.
Until then, there's no good indication which group is better to be using at
a given time. It's stupid to have both groups, and we'd be better off with
only one of them.
If you want to send a post to both CLVB and CLBV, then cross-post, don't
multi-post.
Multi-post: Two separate posts are sent, each addressed to a single newsgroup,
but containing identical text.
Cross-post: A single post is sent, with two newsgroups listed in the address
field, separated by a comma, similar to sending an email to two people at once.
If you cross-post, then replies made in one newsgroup will also appear in the
other group, avoiding a lot of confusion, repetition, and annoyance. Also in
many newsreaders, if I read the post in one group, it is automatically marked as
read in the other group as well.