It's also a way to acknowledge to each group that others are being notified of the same thing. Some groups have rules or social norms about replies, archives, etc. so it's polite to let others know that this message is not exclusively for them. Or, taking a different perspective, it's nice to know that it might have already been sent to that other list where you were thinking of posting it. W On Mon, Dec 10, 2012 at 6:44 PM, Deborah Elizabeth Finn < deborah_elizabeth_finn@post.harvard.edu> wrote:
On Mon, Dec 10, 2012 at 6:25 PM, Barry Wellman <wellman@chass.utoronto.ca
wrote:
How else do you get the word out to multiple lists. Please be proud of yourself.
Dear Barry,
My theory is that it dates back to the day of Usenet. If you cross-posted to multiple Usenet groups, the members of all those groups would see all responses. This meant that folks from alt.fan.kirk-rules would have to be contaminated with content written by members of alt.fan.picard-rules. Oh, the humanity!
;-)
Best regards from Deborah
P.S. Read "Purity and Danger" by Mary Douglas for more about this sort of category-mixing can constitute an unspeakable defilement in certain cultures.
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