On Mon, 30 Apr 2007, limey wrote:

> Radium wrote:
>
>> On Apr 29, 4:24 pm, Dave > wrote:
>>
>>> Did we ask you to spam all these NGs?
>>
>> I'm not spamming. I am posting to all relevant NGs.
>
> You are cross-posting, which is really frowned upon in Usenet.

No it isn't. Cross-posting is fine (and strongly preferred to
multi-posting). Cross-posting excessively is frowned on; four groups is
not excessive.

> Plus, you are even trying to post to a nonexistent newsgroup.

Silly but harmless, at least on properly-configured news servers.

What *is* to be frowned on is that the post is nonsense. Although if we
were to ban nonsense from usenet, we might as well close it down.

tom

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