Talk:Crossposting

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[edit] Wiktionary this?

One way to deal with this page would be to trim it down and move it to Wiktionary. Thoughts? Regards, Ben Aveling 07:24, 31 January 2006 (UTC)

Seems like it is a pretty reasonable article to me, perhaps it could be expanded. In any event, I think removal of the cleanup tag is probably about due. --Hansnesse 20:39, 10 February 2006 (UTC)

Welcome to Wikipedia. Pages flagged for cleanup generally have entries on Wikipedia:Cleanup (or an archive listed under Category:Cleanup by month) explaining what needs to be cleaned up. And even if they didn't, then just because you don't know what's wrong with the article doesn't mean that it doesn't need cleanup. -- Smjg 21:10, 10 February 2006 (UTC)

Thanks for drawing my attention the cleanup page; I did look at it but must have been going to quick, since I missed your post and only saw the one below it. Perhaps a {{cleanup-rewrite}} tag is more appropriate. Thanks, --Hansnesse 21:22, 10 February 2006 (UTC)

I don't see anything wrong with the article really. It should be expanded actually. --Allemannster 16:29, 21 March 2006 (UTC)

Where has my cleanup message vanished to? Wikipedia:Cleanup/November just redirects to a page claiming to be now empty.

The whole point I was making is that it blurs an important distinction: that between crossposting and multiposting.

"Crossposting is the act of posting verbatim copies of one message". On Usenet (and NNTP-based newsgroups in general), crossposting is posting only one copy, addressed to multiple newsgroups simultaneously. OTOH if you post multiple copies, it's multiposting. There are also a number of webpages, e.g. [1] [2] that go into more detail on the significance of this distinction and the rights and wrongs.

Of course, on other kinds of message board systems, which don't support crossposting in the NNTP sense, the distinction probably isn't made on these terms. There may also be some systems on which a user can address a message to multiple forums simultaneously, but once they are on the server they are indistinguishable from messages posted manually as separate copies (except that the timestamp may match to the second). But this doesn't affect the fact that whatever we do, we should make the distinction that does exist clear. -- Smjg 17:03, 21 March 2006 (UTC)