Re: Abuse of follow-up

In article news:<13jc75j4p3rv60d@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Mike Easter wrote:
Just because any particular individual message might apply to a number
of different groups doesn't mean that it should be posted to all of
them.

As a general rule, a message should be posted to the one best group.

That's all true ... and is a good reason for the OP to limit his posting
to one group, or a (very) small number of groups.

One a message has been crossposted, though -- and thoughtful crossposting
is not always wrong -- it does more harm than good to set a followup.

The business of posting a dumb question expressed badly into several
groups which the poster has never even visited is the stupidest thing I
have ever heard of.

Nobody here is suggesting otherwise. That's not what this subthread is
about.

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Cheers,
Daniel.

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