X-Message-Number: 1117 From: Kevin Q. Brown Subject: Mailing List and sci.cryonics Cross-Posting Date: 10 Aug 1992 Here is how I currently do the cross-posting between the cryonics mailing list and USENET sci.cryonics news group. Some, but not all, sci.cryonics messages get forwarded to the cryonics mailing list. Unless someone calls my attention to important and/or interesting messages that I missed, I do not forward messages in threads matched by my "kill" file or messages that do not appear to me to be of interest to many people on the mailing list. Also, I forward many, but not all, cryonics mailing list messages to sci.cryonics. Certainly I do not forward administrivia messages, such as this one. Nor do I forward messages that the poster requests not to be forwarded to sci.cryonics. Copyrighted materials, which (I think) can be distributed legally to a private mailing list under the "fair use" clause of copyright law, should not go to USENET. Furthermore, some mailing list messages, such as minutes of local cryonics group meetings, really seem to be mailing list material, but not USENET material, and generally do not get distributed to the world on sci.cryonics. (I have attempted to use local USENET distribution (NY, NJ, BA) for some meeting announcements, though.) I do not have a good algorithm for determining which local meeting messages go to sci.cryonics and which do not, so consider it random. If you want your local meeting minutes forwarded to sci.cryonics, then please let me know. Of course, even if I get obstinate about something, you can always send your message to sci.cryonics yourself, or enlist a friend to do it. People who receive both the cryonics mailing list messages and sci.cryonics messages see the cross-posted messages twice. To avoid this duplication, my best solution for now is: (1) put "" in your "kill" file for sci.cryonics and (2) write a script to remove or ignore any cryonics mailing list messages with "Newsgroups: sci.cryonics" in their header. One disadvantage of step (1) above is that if I post something to sci.cryonics that does NOT get posted to the cryonics mailing list, then you will never see it. (This won't happen often, though.) Another approach is to create yet another cryonics mailing list for those people who receive sci.cryonics, too, and post to that list only those messages that never show up on sci.cryonics. Since the forwarding from the cryonics mailing list to sci.cryonics is not well automated, though, this creates more administrative overhead for me and I am not yet ready to tackle it. For now, probably steps (1) and (2) are best. Perhaps someone else has a better solution? Kevin Q. Brown UUCP ...att!whscad1!kqb INTERNET or Rate This Message: http://www.cryonet.org/cgi-bin/rate.cgi?msg=1117