Re: digital camera raw files

"Robert M. Riches Jr." <spamtrap42@xxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

On 2006-11-29, ray <ray@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Wed, 29 Nov 2006 13:27:19 -0500, John-Paul Stewart wrote:

ray wrote:
Having recently acquired a Kodak P850 [snip]

Why was this same article multi-posted to several groups? I just read
it over in c.o.l.hardware, too.

If you feel an article should be sent to more than one group, it is
preferable to cross-post it (putting all the newsgroups together on one
Newsgroups: line, separated by commas) instead of multi-posting separate
copies to each group. There are many places to read up on the details
of why cross-posting is better than multi-posting, including RFC 1855
"Netiquette Guidelines" at http://www.ietf.org/.

And if one cross-posts then it seems that folks get all over your case for
cross-posting. Give it a rest, will you?

Please learn. Cross-posting is always better than (or at
least less bad as) multi-posting.
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ That is of course what "better than" means.
cross posting is considered better than multiposting since
a) many newsreaders will only show you one instance of the post, not one in
each of the newsgroups you follow, and
b) responses to the post in one newgroup will be visible in all newsgroups,
meaning people can see the answer without having had to subscribe to all of
the newsgroups you posted on.


_EXCESSIVE_ cross-posting can produce unhappy responses. A
multi-posting to the same groups would produce even more
unhappy responses if the multi-posting were known.

Agree-- questions about digital cameras in Linux would be unlikely to receive a
response in alt.bitchslap.bush, and the post in that newsgroup would be
liable to just annoy them, and attract responses ( seen in all groups)
which would be less than helpful.

Note that these are all guidelines, not rules or laws. Of course there are
many self appointed net police out there who have nothing better to do with
their time than to post angry letters if you violate one of the guidelines
they have appointed themselves guardians of, filling newsgroups with
irrelevant and annoying posts (much more annoying that the original
multiposting), but then, the guideline against acting like a net cop is
also just a guideline, not a rule or law.



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Robert Riches
spamtrap42@xxxxxxxxxxx
(Yes, that is one of my email addresses.)
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