[Ads-l] Antedating of cross-post (verb 2)

[Hugo]

New in the 2025 Q4 update, the OED's earliest is 1986:

https://www.oed.com/information/updates/december-2025/new-word-entries/

Here's a 1983:

1983 December 20, George Sicherman, “Relationships and Later Lovers”, in
net.singles‎[1] (Usenet), retrieved 20 January 2026:
but it sounds like a rationalization to me. I'm cross-posting this to
net.women to see how women feel about it.

[1] https://groups.google.com/g/net.singles/c/S6sLOIV-VaA/m/5BgCZO2gS7AJ

Also added to https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/crosspost#Verb

For good measure, here's the cross-post in question:

https://groups.google.com/g/net.women/c/c1m9UbDGwws/m/5BgCZO2gS7AJ

Hugo

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