Posted by kony on 12/08/05 22:25

On Fri, 09 Dec 2005 07:39:50 +1300, GraB
<grab@whatever.co.nz> wrote:


>>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.

Quite true, nor was his.
Recall this was a post about a USB tuner to DVD groups.


>Crossposting
>doesn't cause me any prolblems so what's your problem?

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!

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