On Saturday 07 January 2006 08:53, Kenneth Gonsalves wrote: > > Wont the community at large benefit from the benefit of its > > members? I mean wont FOSS benefit from my benefit or yours? > > i ask a question on 4 lists. list a gives me one part of the answer, > list b gives me another part. I am happy. on list c a guy does a > lot of research and gives me a better solution. I am happier. I > integrate all the input and benefit from it. But lists a, b and c > all have incomplete answers - so no one benefits except me. Unless > i post the final solution on all lists. How does the community > grow? This also applies to ppl who post a problem, get the solution > from the list, but never report the results. I personally would > never reply to a cross post - because i feel that it is a selfish > post and antisocial
Well then its settled. From what I gathered, cross posting isn't bad if the person posts the final solution back into all the mailing lists he has approached. We all have views. This is my view. Regards, -- Dinesh A. Joshi -- http://mm.ilug-bom.org.in/mailman/listinfo/linuxers
