news.software.readers

Frank Slootweg wrote:
> [Subject: changed]

[changed subject trimmed, ng/s trimmed, body trimming unmarked below]

[read in nsr, posted in only nsr. because my reply has absolutely
nothing to do with ; and altho' I read and post to
, I don't choose to post my remarks on this issue in
that group.]

> Floyd L. Davidson
>> "David J Taylor"

>>> I try to post only to groups where I will read the posts.
>>
>> Where *you* read the post is of little concern.

Of course it is. I don't read /any/ posts in the groups I don't read.

>> The point is that once a thread has been started in a
>> set number of newsgroups *you* have no way to know who
>> is reading it where.

I know where I posted it. That's who I figger is going to read what I
posted.

>> It is just plain *rude* to cut off
>> others just because you aren't reading the other
>> newsgroups.

Balderdash. I and only I choose to post where i choose to post; not
some crossposter who originally started talking about something else and
very often to too many groups for reasons unknown to me.

> Hear, hear!

Not, not.
>
> Some people will disagree and some will say that a Followup-To: a
> single group should be set, but I fully agree with you.

I don't even say a fup should be set. I just whack 'em off.

> Bottom line: The responsibility for selecting the 'right' newsgroups
> lies with the *initial* poster ("OP").

I have no control over the stupidity of where someone else posts; but I
have absolute and total control over where /I/ post.

> If you want to blame anyone
> (after the fact), blame *hir*

'Blame' of the original crossposter and any subsequent inappropriate
crossposters is a separate subject from /my/ posting appropriately.

Just because some particular topic might apply to any number of groups
'in the beginning' doesn't mean that the numerous subthreads which spin
off with the same subject are going to apply to any of the original ng/s
but one.


--
Mike Easter - anti-crossposter
Any crossposting with which I disagree
has been trimmed away in my own reply