Re: Migrating a physical Win machine to a mac?

Leonidas Jones <leonidasjones@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Jolly Roger wrote:
Another multi post. *sigh*...

That way when someone replies to your post in one group, that reply is
seen in all other news groups to which you sent the post. This is called
"cross-posting" and is the proper way to do it.

And with cross posting, we are forced to read exactly the same thread in
multiple newsgroups. I've never seen how that is to be preferred.

1. Then you should get a better newsewsreader that handles that for you.
Many do.

2. Even if the newsreader doesn't take care of that, seeing the same
thread in multiple newsgroups is at least easy to quickly ignore in the
second group you see it in and is *FAR* better than what results
otherwise.

That's because what results otherwise is a confused mishmash where
people forget which things were said in which groups, or never knew in
the first place if they didn't read them all. You get a lot of
duplication of material in some cases. The duplication is a lot harder
to recognize and quickly skip when it is basically the same material,
but written bu someone else and expressed differently. Plus there is the
work that people had to do to write the posts, not realizing that the
material was already posted elsewhere. You also get references to
material that you haven't seen at all. It gets really, really bad if
anything is at all debatable because of the multiple interleaved
debates.

I have been known to put people on my killfile for repeated
multi-posting after they have ignored requests to stop. That's because
such people have caused a lot of extra work for me (more so in a non-Mac
newsgroup where I am an expert in the field and thus spend quite a bit
of time answering posts).

If you don't appreciate how objectionable multi-posting is, then I
suspect you have never substantially participated in multi-posted
threads that resulted in substantial discussion. Reading, or even
posting an isolated comment are not what I mean by "substantially
participated."

About the only thing worse is simultaneously posting the same query to a
newsgroup and to a mailing list that several of the regular newsgroup
readers also subscribe to.

Perhaps that addition of setting a followup, so that the actual
discussion can take place in one group would be the best of both worlds.

Well, yes. That's often recommended when crossposting.

The O.P. of this particular thread explained the reason for his
multi-post at least to my satisfaction. I don't regard such an isolated
case to be in the same category as repeated violations of the principle,
so this isn't aimed at him. I am just responding to your general coment.

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