Re: posting by ROMPALLI V S N MURTY; preceded by a suggestion for

V. Chowdary Jampala (cjampala@dayton.net)
Thu, 28 Dec 1995 12:55:09 -0500 (EST)

On Wed, 27 Dec 1995, Bapa Rao wrote:

> To reiterate what I said in my reply to Chowdary garu, I suggest the
> following as a preliminary step:
>
> Individual Telusa members can, at their discretion, cc their
> articles to one of the public mail-to-usenet gateways,
> after taking care to eliminate quoted text from their
> articles. This is technically very simple to do.
>
> Thereafter, they can take the responsibility to maintain
> parallel discussion threads on scit and telusa, and to
> cross-post ideas and from one forum to another, all at
> their choice and discretion. Since scit is a public forum,
> there would be no problem with sharing scit-discussion with
> Telusa. However, text from Telusa members should be cleared
> with the authors of the text before crossposting it on
> usenet.

This choice has always been available, and was only infrequently
used in the last three months. May be, the current discussion would
increase the utilization of this choice, but I am skeptical about this
method achieving the desired end results that some of us have been
talking about. Autoposting has a higher chance of achieving those results.

Regards. --- V. Chowdary Jampala