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Re: We've reached the tipping point
de HVS 06/18/2006 10:39
On 17 Jun 2006, »Q« wrote
> HVS <harvey.news@ntlworld.com> wrote in
><news:Xns97E4F21AB84Ewhhvans@80.5.182.99>:
>
>> I only know how to do it in XNews:
>>
>> Go to "Special>Setup XNews>Misc"; first drop-down menu on the
>> left-hand, side under "Newsgroup Options" specifies the
>> cross- post limit.
>>
>> (What I've never figured out is if "more than 3" means "3 or
>> more", or "4 or more"....I've always meant to check it, but I
>> think it means "3 or more".)
>
> It means strictly more than three, so four or more. Another
> thing to keep in mind is Luu's comment:
>
> Note that the group you are currently reading IS counted,
> i.e., it's NOT "kill articles xposted to > n OTHER groups".
>
> And another thing is that it uses the Xref header to do the
> counting; this means that if an article is posted to a group
> your server doesn't carry, that group will not be counted.
Thanks for clarifying that for me.
(I find that 3 works pretty well; I tried it at 5 and 2 for a
while, and found that a few too many loonies post to 4 groups at
a time, but that -- very occasionally -- somebody reasonable has
wound up posting to 3 groups. 3 works for me, anyway.)
--
Cheers,
Harvey
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