You know, I've always considered these responses to cross-posting to a relevant forum or two to be rude. And I've been doing this longer than there's been anything called Usenet or groups or forums, so this isn't some newbie comment.
Traditionally, a cross-post to a small number (2, perhaps 3) of RELEVANT groups has NOT been considered out of line. However, if you feel this way, it would be better to explain -- that if someone then responds only to a single forum, then others won't see the response, and will also feel called upon to respond. The counter to that is, of course, "don't do that then" -- respond to all the cross-posted forums, if you have a relevant response. Plus you have the option of just skipping over the post. This will save YOU time, and save everybody else on each forum an equivalent amount to what the cross-post cost AND will spare everyone who's on just one of the forums having to read your post at all -- the first post MAY have been of interest to us -- but yours is certainly not. The use case here is legitimate - if the poster doesn't know which forum to post in, he's going to have to try them serially -- in the end, costing him time, and saving time for nobody else. The primary fault here is not with the poster, but with the forum software, presenting you with the same message twice -- or more generally, not handling this use case in a better way. You're welcome to have a different opinion, of course, but please don't be curt and rude to people asking questions. People cross-posting to IRRELEVANT groups is an entirely different matter. THAT has always been considered rude. Thank you. On Apr 2, 10:46 pm, BobG <[email protected]> wrote: > cross post. rude. wastes time. pick a forum. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en To unsubscribe, reply using "remove me" as the subject.
