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Posted by GraB on 12/09/05 06:18
On Thu, 08 Dec 2005 22:25:03 GMT, kony <spam@spam.com> wrote:
>On Fri, 09 Dec 2005 07:39:50 +1300, GraB
><grab@whatever.co.nz> wrote:
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>>>You want the luxury of doing something that will cause
>>>problems if everyone did it. The vast majority of people
>>>who read your post would not have spent the time sifting
>>>through the group till they got to it if all the (other)
>>>posts were put in every related group. There would be
>>>thousands of posts per group per day and few if any
>>>participants are willing to spend that much time wading
>>>through it all.
>>
>>I think your pants are on fire. Not many posts are of the nature that
>>require crossposting so your scenario doesn't occur.
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>Quite true, nor was his.
>Recall this was a post about a USB tuner to DVD groups.
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>>Crossposting
>>doesn't cause me any prolblems so what's your problem?
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>I don't recall asking if it caused you any problems.
>
>It's a bit amazing that some don't grasp the basic
>fundamental structure of usenet. There's a reason there are
>different groups. Bob made a suggestion like "start your
>own group if you dont' want this traffic". Well, THAT is
>exactly what these groups did do, but there's bob, posting
>to them anyway!
Which is worse: pedantic newsgroup police or crossposters? I go for
the former.
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