What is crossposting, and is it bad?”
A. Crossposting is where many discussion group names are included in the “Newsgroups” header of a posting. This causes them to be distributed to each of those newsgroups when they are received and processed at a news server. (Note that Usenet is not like the World Wide Web. In contrast to the Web, postings are distributed worldwide to thousands of seperate computer systems, so sending just one message instead of many is beneficial.) Like many feature of Usenet news, it can be abused. For example, Posting to large numbers of groups at once, or posting to groups that have incompatible discussion topics as a form of harassment. This has gained it a bad reputation that the dogmatic have converted into legendary restrictions. Try to limit posting to the one newsgroup whose topic matches your subject. If it does seem to overlap a couple of newsgroups’ topics, crosspost if you must. You should avoid (at all cost) multiple postings, (also know as SPAM). This is where you send a seperate postin
