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Re: Excessive Cross Posting
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lugnet.admin.general
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Mon, 18 Dec 2000 15:28:27 GMT
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In lugnet.admin.general, Larry Pieniazek wrote:
> In lugnet.admin.general, Frank Filz writes:
> An initial cross post is fine, but where we really go off the rails is when
> 22 groups are included, and everyone (including a lot of folks who know
> better) just posts replies without thinking about where to set followups to.
I've been that everyone. Typically, the reason I do a "reply to all
groups" is because I'm arriving in the middle of a large-ish thread, I have
no idea what ng's other people have been using,[1] so I just leave things
alone, and reply to all groups.
--
Steve
1) Admittedly, "have no idea" could be replaced with "too lazy to find
out", but it is at least a small pain to poll the existing messages for the
ng headers.
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| (...) Yea, that's a real pain. Sometimes I go to the web interface to follow a thread since you see the whole thread there, but then when the thread gets too big, it becomes worthless to follow it on the web interface because it's hard to keep track (...) (24 years ago, 18-Dec-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| (...) I think that's a bit extreme, although what I snipped below is good discussion fodder. I think a number of the recent cross posts have been initiated by people who either are new, or who don't post as often as some of us. An initial cross post (...) (24 years ago, 18-Dec-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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