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Victor H. wrote:

> Will Dockery wrote:

>> On Friday, July 15, 2022 at 2:34:09 PM UTC-4, george...@yahoo.ca wrote:
>>> On Wednesday, July 13, 2022, michaelmalef...@gmail.com wrote:
>>> > On Wednesday, July 13, 2022 at 5:47:13 PM UTC-4, george...@yahoo.ca
>>> wrote:
>>> >>
>>> >> It sounds like either you don't understand crossposting yourself.
>>> >> "Crossposting" is posting the same message to two or more groups.
>>> >> Everyone in both or all the groups reads the same message; everyone has
>>> >> the same chance of complaining about perceived "lies and
>>> >> misrepresentations".
>>>
>>> > Just because you're able to crosspost to two or more groups, doesn't
>>> mean that you can crosspost *other people's messages* to them.
>>> >
>>>
>>> True. It's impossible to crosspost other people's messages. By
>>> "crossposting other people's messages", MP means quoting them in the
>>> backthread of your own message.
>>>
>>> > And when a writer asks you to stop crossposting their messages to
>>> other groups, you certainly should stop.
>>>
>>> That's the way it's always been during my time on aapc. One regular,
>>> Stuart Leichter,

>> Speaking of Stuart Leichter, here's the relatively obscure poem from him I mentioned during our conversation the other night, "Moving":

>> https://groups.google.com/g/alt.arts.poetry.comments/c/kbBRt4hK8Zk/m/NMH9zzy2xgAJ

> Having a look, love Stuart L. poetry....

I see you found it, bumped again for George Dance.


>>> was vocal about not ever being posted to RAP (that was
>>> back in the days when Dennis Hammes had died, and PJ Ross and his
>>> alt.kooks were running RAP). Of course we all respected his wishes (not
>>> his rights; a wish is not a right.) And by 2009 we had a widespread
>>> agreement to not crosspost anything to RAP; and e all respected that
>>> (which brought PJ et al here, unfortunately).
>>>
>>> The point being, if someone doesn't want their words crossposted, it's
>>> up to them to make their wishes known; it's not my job to seek
>>> permissions from everyone in the thread in order to crosspost one of my
>>> own posts, on one of my own threads, to another group. Those who do have
>>> problems, like NG, can make their wishes known and I'll take them into
>>> account. Just remember - wishes are not rights.
>>>
>>> NG, like you, has posted to RAP. But now they've changed their mind and
>>> doesn't want to be associated with it, of course I'll respect their
>>> wishes until they change their mind again. If anyone else is RAPophobic,
>>> just let me know.

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