Re: Possible reorganisation of comp.sys.apple2 hierarchy

[aa382@Freenet.carleton.ca (Marc Sira)]

>this problem - rec.games.frp.  As rec.games.frp was split into .misc,
>dnd, .archives, etc... the number of messages didn't go down - they
>increased.  But not all of them were unique messages.  Indeed; I have
>seen times when almost every message in rec.games.frp.misc was also
>crossposted to rec.games.frp.dnd.  If, as I suspect, this actually
>causes a message to be posted to each of these groups, then this means
>that by splitting the group the network managers have simply doubled
>the amount of mass storage needed in order to handle the Usenet.  I

I _think_ that crossposted messages exist once, with the relevant groups
in the header. Thus crossposting uses less bandwidth than, say, posting
a message repeatedly, to different newsgroups (which some people do).

If I'm wrong about this, someone please correct me (but I don't think I am).

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