Re: I should report this egotistical response I received

Malcolm Dew-Jones wrote:

> Sybrand Bakker (gooiditweg_at_sybrandb.demon.nl) wrote:
> : On 20 Mar 2003 06:58:11 -0800, amanda94621_at_yahoo.com (amanda) wrote:
>
> : >When someone posts a question, the goal is to get maximun useful
> : >repsonses.
> : As there is only a tiny collection of people responding, *nothing* is
> : gained by posting in multiple groups except getting maximum annoyance
> : from the people responding.
> :
> : You are not thinking clearly: If I respond to a question, and I see
> : *later on* someone has *already* responded to it in a different group,
> : I just *wasted* free *volunteer* time.
>
> Which is exactly what happens if people do not correctly cross-post. If a
> response was correctly cross-posted then you would have seen the response
> no matter which group you were viewing and no matter which group the other
> poster happened to be viewing when they responded.
>
> Actually, your answer is bogus anyway for two other reasons anyway. One,
> you never see answers the moment they are posted. For any question you
> choose to answer there could be numerous other responses that you just
> haven't seen yet because of the time it takes for them to make it to your
> site. Two, how does someone elses answer make your effort a waste of
> time? You chose to spent a certain amount of your time and that time is
> gone no matter how many other people answer the question. If you're not
> willing to write off the time spent then don't spend it in the first
> place.

Would everyone please stop this and go read the FAQ.

I thought it was about time someone said RTFM.

Thank you.

Daniel Morgan Received on Thu Mar 20 2003 - 19:13:42 CST