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On 2026-02-14 00:42, Grzegorz Brzęczyszczykiewicz wrote:
> > Dear Emily:
> I'm still confused as to what groups articles should be posted
> to. How about an example?
> -- Still Confused
> > Dear Still:
> Ok. Let's say you want to report that Gretzky has been traded from
> the Oilers to the Kings. Now right away you might think rec.sport.hockey
> would be enough. WRONG. Many more people might be interested. This is a
> big trade! Since it's a NEWS article, it belongs in the news.* hierarchy
> as well. If you are a news admin, or there is one on your machine, try
> news.admin. If not, use news.misc.
> The Oilers are probably interested in geology, so try sci.physics.
> He is a big star, so post to sci.astro, and sci.space because they are
> also interested in stars. Next, his name is Polish sounding. So post to
> soc.culture.polish. But that group doesn't exist, so cross-post to
> news.groups suggesting it should be created. With this many groups of
> interest, your article will be quite bizarre, so post to talk.bizarre as
> well. (And post to comp.std.mumps, since they hardly get any articles
> there, and a "comp" group will propagate your article further.)
> You may also find it is more fun to post the article once in each
> group. If you list all the newsgroups in the same article, some
> newsreaders will only show the the article to the reader once! Don't
> tolerate this.
> -- Emily Postnews Answers Your Questions on Netiquette
>