Re: Section_7.02.02

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From: Kai Henningsen (kaih@khms.westfalen.de)
Date: Sat Nov 13 1999 - 07:26:00 CST


rra@stanford.edu (Russ Allbery) wrote on 04.11.99 in <yld7tp1tty.fsf@windlord.stanford.edu>:

> what people put in the Newsgroups header of newgroup messages. And people
> have had a hard time convincing people not to do things like put
> news.admin.hierarchies in the Newsgroups header of all their control
> messages for some obscure hierarchy that the people carrying only news.*
> don't want.

Better there than news.announce.important!

Of course it depends on what you're actually trying to do. If you're
trying to improve propagation, this looks to me like the Right Thing(tm).
OTOH, if you're just doing routine maintenance, there's no reason to
crosspost outside of your hierarchy.

MfG Kai


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