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[RW Pickle]

I am seeing an increasing amout of a problem that is simple for list
posters to deal with. So I thought I'd take this educational moment to
mention it.

The problem is cross-posting. That is when you send an email out to
multiple lists or list servers. It's not a problem for the poster (if they
belong to all of the lists), but because people who will respond to the
post may not belong to all of the lists the poster belongs, it begins to
drag them across lists when they click the "reply all" link in their
email.

I have adopted the policy to reject these cross-posted replies only
because if the people wanted to be a part of the INC list, they could
easily join. Perhaps by rejecting the posts, they will. But it causes me
extra effort in dealing with all of the non-list members cross-posting. I
do not wish to add them to the INC list because it is an opt-in list and
that would circumvent that option. So I reject the posts and include a
message that it was rejected because they are not a member of the INC
opt-in mailing list.

So as you send posts out across the great email divide, please be aware
that a number of people who might read your post on one list, may not be a
member of another list. And because they will click the "reply all" email
link, their reply will be sent to all the lists that they are not members
of. By single list posting, this problem will disappear. You might
encourage other members of your community join the INC list so their posts
will not be rejected in the future.

Sorry if this is a problem for some. But I can assure you it's a bigger
problem on this end for me.

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