In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Waylen Gumbal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Sherman Pendley wrote: >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: >> > >> > > PLEASE DO NOT | :.:\:\:/:/:.: >> > > FEED THE TROLLS | :=.' - - '.=: >> > >> > I don't think Xah is trolling here (contrary to his/her habit) >> > but posing an interesting matter of discussion. >> >> It might be interesting in the abstract, but any such discussion, when >> cross-posted to multiple language groups on usenet, will inevitably >> devolve into a flamewar as proponents of the various languages argue >> about which language better expresses the ideas being talked about. >> It's like a law of usenet or something. >> >> If Xah wanted an interesting discussion, he could have posted this to >> one language-neutral group such as comp.programming. He doesn't want >> that - he wants the multi-group flamefest. > >Not everyone follows language-neutral groups (such as comp,programming >as you pointed out), so you actually reach more people by cross posting. >This is what I don't understand - everyone seems to assume that by cross >posting, one intends on start a "flamefest", when in fact most such >"flamefests" are started by those who cannot bring themselves to >skipping over the topic that they so dislike. > >-- >wg
Not one person on the planet agrees with me, I believe, but it's always seemed to me that an *advantage* to posting to multiple groups (especially ones generally "interested" in similar subject matter but NOT subject to huge poster/lurker/answerer overlap, er, without too many *people* getting multiple copies of the *same* post) is that it would provide an opportunity of a widely-dispersed bunch of people to have a *joint* discussion, with comments hopefully coming in from a *variety* of viewpoints. David -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
