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I'm new to the crossposting concept. Here is my "newbie analysis".

- If you have a message that spans groups, the thread can move in the direction of any particular group just by virtue of being there, which means it's diverging from the direction of all of the other groups that were crossposted to. As we all know, threads can take on lives of their own. If cross-posted, you increase that -- on every group it could take on a life of its own, and you end up with one big mess.

- It is becoming apparent by participating here, that after a while you get to know different people, in the limited way you can get to know them by reading their posts over time. Different people can have their ideosyncracies (sp) and a particular group can over time realize that and it's no problem. By crossposting, the chance increases that a person who has become "part of the family" (for better or worse) then is misunderstood by people on the other groups.

- Any thread can potentially turn into a flame war. Depending on the personalities of groups, this happens more often on some than others. So by crossposting, you increase the risk of a flame war appearing on all of the crossposted groups, because there is a certain probabability that it would occur on each group, and the more you add the probability increases accumulatively.

I guess that's my analysis off the top of my head. Am I on the right track to understanding this? (Notan, S.Lewis, ... ?)

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