Tiggs Panther <tiggs@m-void.co.uk> wrote in
news:oov0fv01qig7v3obc29bri3mqap55r7tn8@4ax.com: 

> Blade <kumonryuu@hotmail.com> was incriminated by their posting
> [Wed, 18 Jun 2003 13:10:13 GMT] to uk.media.animation.anime:
> 
> <re: are they abuse@ reportable...>
>>No, since (as you just grudgingly admitted) they are on-topic for
>>RAAM, and also for the other two as well, I suspect.
> 
> On-topic, yes. But they're releantles cross-posted. Cross-posting is
> supposed to only be done when strictly necessary, not when you just
> want to get the most coverage for your discussion.

That's not exactly a hard and fast rule, nor something that there is any 
sort of provable abuse to when the postings are all on-topic.  If they 
were posting to 20 different groups or to alt.automobiles, yes.  But as 
it is, no.

> <snip>
>>It would be nice, however, if the participants would keep their
>>threads properly labeled so those uninterested could more easily
>>skip them.  Sometimes they have, but sometimes they haven't.  Just a
>>common courtesy thing.
> 
> So, what label or tag should they use? Plus what's to say they'd
> bother?

An [H] tag would do nicely.  The selfsame poster was asked to and 
complied with using it on AFD.  Perhaps, if asked, he would have the same 
courtesy again.  PPV?

                                    Blade