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In article <3360B0...@concentra.com>, "Mike Roca, Jr."
<m...@concentra.com> wrote:
>
>As a Network Administrator, I highly doubt you can seriously believe
>what you just stated.  Crossposting sends a copy of the message to each
>individual newsgroup, just as mailing to multiple recipients send a copy
>of a mail message to multiple users.

You aren't a Network Administrator, are you?  I'm not the original poster,
but I have been a system and network admin for about ten years now, and I
can catagorically tell you that you don't have a clue.  Crossposting sends
ONE copy of a message from server to server.  That one message has multiple
groups listed in the Newsgroups: header.  The news server software puts one
copy on disk in the directory for one group, and then puts links in all of
the other directories for all of the other groups, links that point back
to the one copy on disk.  Similarly, decent mail software consolidates
multiple recipients as much as possible.  If a message is sent to multiple
recipients on the same system, only one copy of the message is generally
sent.  The receiving system then blows it out into multiple copies in
multiple mailboxes.  Obviously if the same message is sent to other users
on other systems, a copy of the message has to be sent to each system.
If the software on your system doesn't act intelligently, well, what can
I say except change providers or get real software.

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