Re: I should report this egotistical response I received

On 20 Mar 2003, yf110_at_vtn1.victoria.tc.ca wrote:
> Sybrand Bakker (gooiditweg_at_sybrandb.demon.nl) wrote:

>: 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.

True. But many newsreaders don't give the user the ability to filter out the same crossposted article. So, then, the fellow who is reading all of the groups sees the same exact article X number of times. Start adding that up and its a waste of time. Soon, the cross-poster makes it into the killfile of the annoyed helper.

So, who is it that loses out? The crossposter. The helper just gets rid of them from view.

So, if the crossposter decides to stubbornly stick to her guns and continue to crosspost, then, who is she hurting? Herself.

It will be no skin off Sybrand's nose to killfile amanda, but amanda will lose out on somebody who could help her.

> 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.

This makes no sense. The post makes it to one's newserver at a single moment in time. Then, that newserver distributes it to the crossposted groups.

> 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.

Like I said, it is the crossposter who loses not the one whos helping.

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