Re: [OT] Crossposting and moderation (was: semaphores not usable ...)

From: Floyd L. Davidson (floyd_at_barrow.com)
Date: 10/23/04 

Date: Sat, 23 Oct 2004 03:25:13 -0800

anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) wrote:
>
>>Crossposting is often a bad idea, and even worse it
>>seems if one of the groups is moderated.
>
>It's even funnier when several of the groups are moderated.
>
>Certainly crossposting without setting Followup-to: to a single group
>is a bad idea.

Abject ignorance. Cross-posting in and of itself is a good idea.

Posting off topic articles in groups where they do not belong is
a bad idea (and has *nothing* to do with cross-posting).

The idea that all cross-posts should set followups to a single
group is absurd! It virtually defeats the purpose of cross-posting,
and is only very rarely suitable.

>Followups to poster (off-topic).

That is just plain rude. Who the *** are *you* to decide that
nobody else should post a followup? If you don't want others to
respond to what you write, *don't* *post* *your* *thoughts* *in* *a* *public*
*forum*.

You are also absolutely wrong that this is off-topic.
Topicallity, netiquette, and the technical implementation of
such, are *always* on topic in *any* newsgroup open to
discussion (hence it might not be on topic in a binary or source
code only group that has an associated discussion group, which
would be where it should be posted). 

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