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FinePC
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Should I? I think that this is a better forum for a post I sent to another
forum. I just don't want offend anyone.
forum. I just don't want offend anyone.
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Chaos Master
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Quoting the poster called 'FinePC' that posted
<105r55267ddl077@corp.supernews.com> in sci.electronics.repair at Sun, 21 Mar
2004 06:12:32 -0700 .
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<105r55267ddl077@corp.supernews.com> in sci.electronics.repair at Sun, 21 Mar
2004 06:12:32 -0700 .
Yes, crossposting to 2 or 3 groups is not bad.Should I? I think that this is a better forum for a post I sent to another
forum. I just don't want offend anyone.
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Michael Black
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"FinePC" (finepc@aaahawk.com) writes:
If after a decent time, you don't get a response, then it's time
to find a more appropriate newsgroup. And then you post to that
one, and hope it brings in an answer.
Don't do as some posters have done, posting to one newsgroup, then
shifting to another newsgroup to find another answer when they don't
like the answer in the first newsgroup, or need more details. Continue
the thread in the original newsgroup.
Don't post individually to a number of newsgroups with the same message.
That will result in wasted bandwidth, and will provide disjointed
discussions where the people in different newsgroups are not talking
together.
There are only rare situations where cross-posting, ie sending the
same message to multiple newsgroups at the same time, is warranted.
This is much rarer than actually happens. Usually, it is the mark
of someone who either thinks their message is so important that
everyone should see it, or the poster is too lazy or too impatient
to figure out where the message best belongs. Cross-posting can
often result in wasteful threads, because people pick very different
newsgroups, and you are basically imposing something on those newsgroups,
resulting in clashes amongst people who aren't talking together otherwise.
You can always find appropriate newsgroups by doing searches at
http://www.groups.google.com Put in some searchwords and see where
that is being discussed. You may even find that someone has already
asked the same question, and gotten an answer.
Don't post once and then ignore the rest of the thread. Too often,
people post a question and then they are never heard from again. Often,
the original question is not phrased well, or not enough detail is provided,
so a really long thread can be generated but nobody has a real clue
of what the answer should be because they don't know all the details.
Follow the thread, and come back into it if they are misreading your
question or they are puzzled over the question. And ultimately, it
makes sense to post a followup if an answer helps you, or you come
to some other solution. Newsgroups are not a place where you can
soak up information, they are a place that practically begs
your pariticpation.
And if you're puzzling over the hierarchy, you should read Mark
Zenier's guide to the sci.electronics.* hierarchy at
ftp://ftp.eskimo.com/u/m/mzenier/seguide9706.txt
He didn't go to all that trouble back in 1995 to propose and
proponent the split of sci.electronics into the present multiple
subgroups just so that every post would be cross-posted or
so people didn't give much thought to what newsgroup in
the hierarchy to post to.
Michael
one alone.Should I? I think that this is a better forum for a post I sent to another
forum. I just don't want offend anyone.
You figure out the most appropriate, and post to that one, and that
If after a decent time, you don't get a response, then it's time
to find a more appropriate newsgroup. And then you post to that
one, and hope it brings in an answer.
Don't do as some posters have done, posting to one newsgroup, then
shifting to another newsgroup to find another answer when they don't
like the answer in the first newsgroup, or need more details. Continue
the thread in the original newsgroup.
Don't post individually to a number of newsgroups with the same message.
That will result in wasted bandwidth, and will provide disjointed
discussions where the people in different newsgroups are not talking
together.
There are only rare situations where cross-posting, ie sending the
same message to multiple newsgroups at the same time, is warranted.
This is much rarer than actually happens. Usually, it is the mark
of someone who either thinks their message is so important that
everyone should see it, or the poster is too lazy or too impatient
to figure out where the message best belongs. Cross-posting can
often result in wasteful threads, because people pick very different
newsgroups, and you are basically imposing something on those newsgroups,
resulting in clashes amongst people who aren't talking together otherwise.
You can always find appropriate newsgroups by doing searches at
http://www.groups.google.com Put in some searchwords and see where
that is being discussed. You may even find that someone has already
asked the same question, and gotten an answer.
Don't post once and then ignore the rest of the thread. Too often,
people post a question and then they are never heard from again. Often,
the original question is not phrased well, or not enough detail is provided,
so a really long thread can be generated but nobody has a real clue
of what the answer should be because they don't know all the details.
Follow the thread, and come back into it if they are misreading your
question or they are puzzled over the question. And ultimately, it
makes sense to post a followup if an answer helps you, or you come
to some other solution. Newsgroups are not a place where you can
soak up information, they are a place that practically begs
your pariticpation.
And if you're puzzling over the hierarchy, you should read Mark
Zenier's guide to the sci.electronics.* hierarchy at
ftp://ftp.eskimo.com/u/m/mzenier/seguide9706.txt
He didn't go to all that trouble back in 1995 to propose and
proponent the split of sci.electronics into the present multiple
subgroups just so that every post would be cross-posted or
so people didn't give much thought to what newsgroup in
the hierarchy to post to.
Michael
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Richard Crowley
Guest
"FinePC" wrote ...
are REALLY appropriate, cross-posting to 2-3 newsgroups is not
only appropriate but prefereable to posting the same query separately
in multiple newsgroups. That is precisely why it was invented. There
have been so many abuses, however, that many people who are less
experienced Usenet users seem to think that there is something
fundamentally wrong with cross-posting.
If you lurk sufficiently long enough to determine if the newsgroupsShould I? I think that this is a better forum for a post I sent to another
forum. I just don't want offend anyone.
are REALLY appropriate, cross-posting to 2-3 newsgroups is not
only appropriate but prefereable to posting the same query separately
in multiple newsgroups. That is precisely why it was invented. There
have been so many abuses, however, that many people who are less
experienced Usenet users seem to think that there is something
fundamentally wrong with cross-posting.
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JeffM
Guest
I agree with the spirit of what Michael Black had to say,less experienced Usenet users seem to think
that there is something fundamentally wrong with cross-posting
Richard Crowley
but his response assumes narrow interest by Usenet participants.
Richard acknowledges the split of the original group
and stops just short of saying that
the poster's judgement should include consideration of, in some instances,
the possibility of interest/response/correction/clarification
by folks in (quasi-)related groups.