Editing Breidbart Index (section)

==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>[https://groups.google.com/group/news.admin.misc/msg/6e7f15c048a71019 &lt;news:36i6hk$3li@panix3.panix.com&gt;]</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