POV check date March 2012 Crossposting is the act of posting the same message to multiple information channels Internet forum forums , mailing list s, or newsgroup s. Crossposting is perceived by whom date January 2012 as inconsiderate ref name bsdfaq cite web url http www.freebsd.org doc en articles mailing list faq etiquette.html INAPPROPRIATE title Mailing List Etiquette publisher The FreeBSD Documentation Project accessdate August 31, 2011 ref , poor etiquette ref name rfc1855 cite report url http www.faqs.org rfcs rfc1855.html title RFC 1855 Netiquette Guidelines publisher The Internet Engineering Task Force IETF date October 1995 accessdate August 31, 2011 author Hambridge, S. ref and is banned from Usenet newsgroups and virtually all email lists. ref name fedora cite web url http fedoraproject.org wiki Mailing list guidelines title Mailing list guidelines publisher fedoraproject.org date 11 October 2010 accessdate August 31, 2011 ref ref name manners cite web url http forums.mozillazine.org faq.php?mode rules f4r0 title Forum Rules, Mozillazine publisher mozillazine.org accessdate August 31, 2011 ref This is distinct from multiposting, which is the posting of separate identical .... Enforcement actions against crossposting individuals vary from simple admonishments up to total ... ref Crossposting to groups that are irrelevant to the message posted could be considered spam electronic spamming . Moreover, excessive crossposting is generally considered bad form because it multiplies ... To . mozillazine.org Crossposting in Usenet In Usenet , the destination newsgroup s for a particular ... t yet looked there. Crossposting is usually practiced when material is relevant and of interest to the readers ... a conflict. This is a form of Troll Internet trolling . Crossposting to more than a small number ... message boards. Crossposting also known as x posting occurs when two persons post responses to the same ... terminology Category Usenet de Crossposting es Env o cruzado fr Crosspostage it Cross posting ... more details
The Breidbart Index , developed by Seth Breidbart, is the most significant cancel index in Usenet . A cancel index measures the dissemination intensity of substantively identical articles. If the index exceeds a threshold the articles are called newsgroup spam . They can then be removed using third party cancel controls. Cancel Index Crossposting is the act of posting the same message to multiple newsgroups Multiposting is the act of posting the same contents multiple times The principal idea of the Breidbart Index is to give these methods different weight. ref http groups.google.com group news.admin.misc msg 6e7f15c048a71019 < news 36i6hk 3li panix3.panix.com> ref With a crossposted message less data needs to be transferred and stored. And excessive crossposts ECP are also a likely beginner s error, while excessive multiposts EMP suggest deliberate usage of special software. The crucial issue is categorizing multiple articles as substantively identical . ref name thresholds This includes byte for byte identical messages otherwise identical postings minimally customized for each group it appears in advertising the same service articles that consist solely of the same signature articles which consist of inclusions of other user s postings, but are otherwise identical Breidbart Index BI The Breidbart Index of a set of articles is defined as the sum of the square root of n , where n is the number of newsgroups to which an article is Crossposting cross posted . Formula math mbox BI sum k 1 m sqrt n k math Example Two copies of a posting are made, one to 9 groups, and one to 16. math sqrt 9 sqrt 16 3 4 7 math Breidbart Index, Version 2 BI2 A more aggressive criterion, Breidbart Index Version 2, has been proposed. The BI2 is defined as the sum of the square root of n , plus the sum of n , divided by two. ref name thresholds A single message would only need to be crossposted to 35 newsgroups to breach the threshold of 20. Formula math mbox BI2 sum k 1 m frac n k sqrt n ... more details
lowercase title talk.origins talk.origins often capitalised to Talk.Origins or abbreviated as t.o. is a Usenet Moderated and unmoderated newsgroups moderated Usenet discussion Internet forum forum concerning the origins of life , and evolution . It remains a major venue for debate in the creation evolution controversy , and its official purpose is to draw such debates out of the science newsgroup s, such as sci.bio.evolution. History The first post to talk.origins was a starter post by Mary Ann Horton Mark Horton , dated 5 September 1986. ref name first cite newsgroup title starter message for talk.origins author Mary Ann Horton Horton, Mark date 5 September 1986 newsgroup talk.origins id 2518 cbosgd.UUCP url http groups.google.com group talk.origins msg 522447ebebbe9bd6 accessdate 9 September 2009 ref In the early 1990s, a number of FAQ s on various topics were being periodically posted to the newsgroup . In 1994, Brett J. Vickers established an anonymous File Transfer Protocol FTP site to host the collected FAQ s of the newsgroup. In 1995, Vickers started the TalkOrigins Archive web site as another means of hosting the talk.origins FAQs. It maintains an extensive FAQ on topics in evolutionary biology , geology and astronomy , with the aim of representing the views of mainstream science . It has spawned other websites, notably TalkDesign a response to the intelligent design movement , Evowiki, and the Panda s Thumb weblog . The group was originally created as the unmoderated newsgroup net.origins as a dumping ground for all the various flame threads polluting other newsgroups, then renamed to talk.origins as part of the Great Renaming . Subsequently, after discussion on the newsgroup, the group was voted to be moderated in 1997 by the normal USENET RFD CFV process, in which only spam electronic spam and excessive crossposting are censored. The moderator for the newsgroup is David Iain Greig and technically Jim Lippard as alternate backup . Culture The group is char ... more details
ECP is an abbreviation for a number of terms, including Education Early College Program , cole Centrale Paris , a French university Health and medicine Emergency Care Practitioner , a type of Paramedic Nurse Eye care professional Emergency contraception Emergency contraceptive pill , a type of contraception also known as morning after pill Extended Care Physicians Computing Ecommerce Platform Embedded Controller Program , a kind of firmware in Thinkpad laptops. Enhanced Capacities Port , a parallel port used in computing Enterprise Content Publishing , a software published by WebWorks Equivalence partitioning Equivalence class partitioning , a software testing technique. Excessive Crossposting , way of Usenet spam . Also known as Velveeta. IEEE 1284 Extended capability port , a type of parallel port used in computers, part of IEEE 1284 standard Science and technology Eastman Color Positive , a photographic processing system Effective Core Potential , a term in computational chemistry Electrical Code of Practice Electronc Commerce Partnership Electrochemical corrosion potential Electrochemical potential Electronic Check Processing Electronic Communications in Probability , a scientific journal Electronic Couch Potato , after the STB monitoring solution. Performs monitoring on television signals by emulating a human changing channels on the STB. Electronically controlled pneumatic brakes Electronically controlled pneumatic railway brakes. End credits promotion in television, a sequence combining the running of a particular programme s closing credits with a Continuity broadcasting continuity announcement presenting details of the next and upcoming items Eosinophil Cationic Protein , a pore building and RNAse functioning molecule synthesised by eosinophil s Executive Cellular Processor , a part of CDMA architecture External CounterPulsation see EECP Exposed Conductive Parts see Earthing system Linguistics Empty category principle , a syntactic constraint in theoretica ... more details
Infobox dot com company company name Edmodo company logo File Edmodo logo.png 300px company type Privately held company Private genre foundation September 2008 founder Nicolas Borg and Jeff O Hara dissolved location San Mateo, California locations incorporated area served key people industry products services revenue operating income net income owner num employees parent divisions subsid company slogan Safe Social Networking for Schools A Secure Social Learning Network for K12 Education url URL edmodo.com ipv6 alexa DecreasePositive 12,900 ref name Alexa cite web title Edmodo traffic statistics url http www.alexa.com siteinfo www.edmodo.com publisher Alexa Internet, Inc accessdate 1 April 2011 ref website type Social network service advertising registration Required num users 6,000,000 language English, Spanish, Portuguese, German, Greek, French launch date current status Active screenshot File Edmodo log in page.png 300px caption footnotes intl Edmodo stylized edmodo is a social learning Social network network for teachers, students, and parents. Design Edmodo s user interface has been described as similar to Facebook . ref cite web title Technology invasion url http www.minotdailynews.com page content.detail id 552101 Technology invasion.html?nav 5010 publisher Ogden Newspapers Inc. accessdate 21 February 2011 author ANDREA JOHNSON date 20 month February year 2010 ref In utilizing a popular design, users are familiar as to how to navigate through the site to check grades, assignments, and write posts to fellow classmates, teachers, and parents. Using Edmodo, teachers can post grades and assign homework to students. Students can then submit the homework and view their grade as well as any comments the teacher may have posted about their assignment. Teachers can also create polls and post topics for discussion among the students. The transmission is fast and paper less. Teachers eliminate crossposting through the creation of sub groups within a course. ref name Keep ... more details
or spreading forum spam . A user may also send the same post to several forums, which is termed crossposting . The term derives from Usenet , where crossposting was an accepted practice but causes problems ... more details
Use mdy dates date February 2012 File Usenet servers and clients.svg 250px thumb A diagram of Usenet servers and clients. The blue, green, and red dots on the servers represent the groups they carry. Arrows between servers indicate newsgroup group exchanges feeds . Arrows between clients and servers indicate that a user is subscribed to a certain group and reads or submits articles. Usenet is a worldwide distributed Internet discussion system. It was developed from the general purpose UUCP architecture of the same name. Duke University graduate students Tom Truscott and Jim Ellis computing Jim Ellis conceived the idea in 1979 and it was established in 1980. ref name Lueg From Usenet to CoWebs interacting with social information spaces , Christopher Lueg, Danyel Fisher, Springer 2003 , ISBN 1852335327, ISBN 9781852335328 ref Users read and post messages called articles or posts , and collectively termed news to one or more categories, known as Usenet newsgroup newsgroup s. Usenet resembles a bulletin board system BBS in many respects, and is the precursor to the various Internet forum s that are widely used today. Usenet can be superficially regarded as a hybrid between email and web forums. Discussions are Threaded discussion threaded , with modern Newsreader Usenet news reader software , as with web forums and BBSes, though posts are stored on the server sequentially. One notable difference between a BBS or web forum and Usenet is the absence of a central server and dedicated administrator. Usenet is distributed among a large, constantly changing conglomeration of servers that store and forward messages to one another in so called news feeds. Individual users may read messages from and post messages to a local server operated by their Internet service provider , university, or employer. Introduction Usenet is one of the oldest computer network communications systems still in widespread use. It was conceived in 1979 and publicly established in 1980 at the University ... more details
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