Sorry for cross-posting (Re: Groan.... Robert goes on.)

mark tinsky wrote:
Dear Green hornet:

Cross-posting to more than one group is a bad habit, although the consensus seems to be that this is not a breach of 'Net etiquette until the number of groups becomes too large (whatever that means). The problem is that follow-ups to that message are also posted to each group and huge snowballing flame wars erupt and rage interminably. These flame wars are of no interest to the thousands of people who read the victim groups. Before you post a response to a message, please check the headers to see if the original message was cross-posted. When following-up to a cross-posted message, always try to edit the header and post only to the group you actually read. Readers of the other groups will, sadly, miss your contributed wisdom."


Politely asking you not to crosspost to ASP TIA MT

Sorry folks, it was my fault. I started the original thread which spawned this little flame war, not realizing the flaming has become this bad. There are obviously some very agitated posters in some of the groups on my destination list. I will be careful next time and post to a single group at a time. Pipe smokers are the nicest people one can meet, personally and on the usenet, and I am sorry for causing all this trouble here.
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