Re: I should report this egotistical response I received

Sybrand Bakker <gooiditweg_at_sybrandb.demon.nl> wrote in message news:<q0ni7v4g8kde3g1s6daapf3nuu0473gn63_at_4ax.com>...
> On 19 Mar 2003 15:25:46 -0800, yf110_at_vtn1.victoria.tc.ca (Malcolm
> Dew-Jones) wrote:
>
> >Oh hogwash. Cross posting is fine, that's the official word from the
> >various faqs posted in various new.[admin...] groups. Also, if a reader
> >uses a sensible reading tool then they do not need to read the article
> >multiple times.
>
>
> *YOUR* response is hogwash and crap. The tiny set of people responding
> here is monitoring all the three Oracle newsgroups. To them it is
> definitely a bore and waste of time to detect someone else responded
> to the same question in a different newsgroup.
> A newsreader usually doesn't detect *multi*post, which is posting the
> same message, or with slight variations to multiple groups.
> Please do not invite people to start using or continue using bad
> habits.
>

When someone posts a question, the goal is to get maximun useful repsonses. Posting in multiple groups (that are relevant to the topic) accomplises that.

 I believe that some of you are not thinking clearly what is mor important.

Beside, can people's memory so bad that they can't remember that they already read a particular thread somewhere else when they see the title? Then my pity on them.

>
> Sybrand Bakker, Senior Oracle DBA
>
> To reply remove -verwijderdit from my e-mail address
Received on Thu Mar 20 2003 - 08:58:11 CST