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- 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. 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. 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
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