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news.misc added to distribution and followups set to it.

Oh, nonsense! If it's ON TOPIC in both groups, where's the problem? Why do you think USENET was designed to enable cross posting? Not only that, general netiquette clearly advises *against* posting the same topic individually to different groups -- you're *supposed* to cross-post it to avoid the damn thing cropping up again when you open another one of the targeted groups.

If it's really better discussed in a specific group, then clearly the original poster should set followups and indicate explicitly where they will be directed.

Your approach of simply axing what you see as "other groups" may well deprive others (all innocent parties :-) of the benefit of your contribution. If you really can't bring yourself to simply accept the original Newsgroups list, then it would be polite of you to at least reply initially to them all and explicity set followups yourself, so readers will know where they should look for subsequent discussion of your contribution, should it be worthwhile.

Well I do agree that people should be consistent in matters like that.

Snipped original technical discussion about hard drives.

That's enough from me on this topic. Sorry to bore the rest of you.

Cheers, Phred.

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