Theos-Talk Archives (August 2002 Message tt00235)

re crossposting

Being a member of Theos-1, Theos Talk, Universal 
Seekers, and the three BN lists, I sometimes wonder about 
crossposting. Lately, having found some interesting posts 
on US that, I feel, might get some interesting responses 
from someone on Theos-1, I've been following rules (well 
enough, I'm hoping) by "uncrossing" some of my posts on 
Theos-1.: It's a technique by which I feel that I can 
respond well enough to a different list by "uncrossing," or 
eliminating and replacing, the "list specific" quotes of 
others, with: "<<. . .>>", except for a few words here and 
there. I find that the result tends to make for an 
interesting variation on a theme. Of course that's just my 
tentative/speculative opinion, though. But, basically, I 
tend to agree with Dallas about crossposting.

And I feel that we can all easily enough check out the 
other lists on which whatever apparent original post 
appeared, especially if that information is supplied by the 
postee. And if we don't want to get hundreds of emails, 
we can, of course, check out the emails on the lists's 
websites, can't we? And surely we can all treat, write 
about, many discussions, themes "more 
centrally/universally," so that, if desired, our posts are, 
obviously enough, not too specific to any particular list, 
but are, instead, "more specific" about the subjects 
themselves. For example, let's say that a theoretical Tom 
said "No," and that I felt "Yes," then I might "uncross" 
Tom by addressing the issue, itself, as I see it, if I feel, for 
whatever reason, that a person/s on another list might 
have something interesting/relevant to say about that 
subject; or I might mention that a so-and-so on another 
(specified) list brought up a particular issue, (at which 
point I might describe that issue mainly in my own 
words), and I might then go on to write about something 
that "originally" came up on/in some other list, book, 
lecture, magazine, Theosophy group, conversation on the 
street, or wherever.

Speculatively,
Mauri