Tom Anderson wrote:
> 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.

So, add the nonexistent newsgroup and he started out with five.
>
> 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.

Yes, the post *is* nonsense, yet the PITA is that responses to that
nonsense from posters on all the groups will show up here. Note: I am
deliberately crossposting, to get my message across that crossposting
can result in indignant responses from many.