Re: how to say "god does not exist" in arabic?

From: Scott Wood (nospam_at_buserror.net)
Date: 08/25/04 

Date: Tue, 24 Aug 2004 20:06:27 -0500

On 24 Aug 2004 20:26:01 GMT, David Brandon Thomas <vaelynphi@aol.comZOT> wrote:
> In article <412B26FE.7427@worldnet.att.net>, "Peter T. Daniels"
><grammatim@worldnet.att.net> writes:
>>Do you, too, not understand about crossposting? Mr. Lee will not see
>>your message.
>>--
>>Peter T. Daniels grammatim@att.net
>
> I tried crossposting it; if it did not work, I don't really care.

It didn't, and Peter was explaining why you should. With most
newsreaders, one has to make an effort *not* to continue
cross-posting if the parent article was cross-posted (except in the
presense of a Followup-To: line, which the post you replied to did
not have).

> Shouldn't there be something in Usenet etiquette about posting to
> groups you do not read? It should be equivalent to spam, another
> unanswerable form of communication.

It's not unanswerable; you can answer by continuing to cross-post.

Yes, cross-posting is often abused, but there's nothing wrong with it
when a thread is *legitimately* on topic in all of the groups
involved. If everyone had to trim the newsgroup list to only those
groups that they read, there could be no discussion between members
of different groups.

If you feel the cross-post is inappropriate, you can set a
Followup-To: header to indicate this. Such a line indicates which
group you will be reading from, and tells people in other groups
where to go to continue the discussion if they wish.

-Scott

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