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  • Please Do Crosspost (Crossposting is not 'spamming') *

    From Mr. Man-wai Chang@21:1/5 to Dr. Jai Maharaj on Sat Apr 21 00:44:23 2018
    XPost: soc.culture.indian, alt.usage.english, alt.english.usage
    XPost: soc.culture.usa, alt.politics

    On 20/4/2018 5:24 AM, Dr. Jai Maharaj wrote:

    "I remind you that cross-posting is not spamming. With
    cross-posting, only a single article is sent into each news
    server. With spamming, you have many separate copies of the
    same article sent to different newsgroups." -- Kenneth M. Taira

    In Hong Kong Cantonese, some people called spamming as "washing the
    broad". Basically, they flood a newsgroup with lots of subjects so that
    a target thread was no longer visible in the first page of the thread list.

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  • From Colonel Edmund J. Burke@21:1/5 to Mr. Man-wai Chang on Sun Apr 22 07:47:47 2018
    XPost: soc.culture.indian, alt.usage.english, alt.english.usage
    XPost: soc.culture.usa, alt.politics

    On 4/20/2018 9:44 AM, Mr. Man-wai Chang wrote:
    On 20/4/2018 5:24 AM, Dr. Jai Maharaj wrote:

    "I remind you that cross-posting is not spamming.  With
    cross-posting, only a single article is sent into each news
    server.  With spamming, you have many separate copies of the
    same article sent to different newsgroups." -- Kenneth M. Taira

    In Hong Kong Cantonese, some people called spamming as "washing the broad". Basically, they flood a newsgroup with lots of  subjects so that a target thread was no longer visible in the first page of the thread list.


    Them chinks in Canton are always washin' something...

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