Re: Abuse of follow-up (was: Dialog, was Cross posting)

In article news:<13jidqhou3fjqd1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Mike Easter wrote:
-3- it is misguided to think that everyone who replies to your question
should have their replies crossposted into the same groups that you
chose for your own special reasons.

There are advantages to crossposting all the replies to a crossposted
question. In particular it means that everyone can see when the question
has been answered -- and once the question has been answered in any one
of the groups nobody else needs to bother.

In usenet, though, things are never that simple, threads *do* drift,
people *do* make irrelevant comments ...

However, your point as stated appears to suppose that the poster has some
control over where replies to his post get directed. That is not the
case, so he might as well not worry about it.

You should research your question sufficiently and research your
groups of interest sufficiently that you can post your question
into one group, and that's where all of the fups are going to be
as well.

That's the ideal, certainly. We should all aspire to it, but in reality
few of us can attain it all the time. I take the pragmatic stance that
one may just occasionally not be able answer a question by research or
identify one group that is clearly the correct one in which to post it.
When that happens crossposting should not be condemned out-of-hand ...
and when crossposting /does/ happen it is my experience that keeping the
whole thread crossposted generally leads to a shorter and more fruitful
conversation than any attempt to break it up.

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Cheers,
Daniel.



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