Re: Question about pipes

From: Keith Thompson (kst-u_at_mib.org)
Date: 02/14/04 

Date: Sat, 14 Feb 2004 21:26:04 GMT

Madhusudan Singh <spammers-go-here@yahoo.com> writes:
> On Saturday 14 February 2004 00:40, Jack Klein (jackklein@spamcop.net) held
> forth in comp.os.linux.misc (<grcr20tfjaqjqe074b50h1hkv3lgcef0eg@4ax.com>):
> > On Fri, 13 Feb 2004 14:23:41 -0500, Madhusudan Singh
> > <spammers-go-here@yahoo.com> wrote in comp.lang.c:
> >> Hi
> >
> > Cross-posting to more than one group but leaving some out of the
> > followups setting is just plain rude. I would say you've worn out
> > your welcome in comp.lang.c.
>
> Thanks for speaking on behalf of the newsgroup.
[snip]

Madhusudan Singh, I suspect Jack Klein was just having a bad day.

You did make a couple of mistakes. Pipes (as you now know) are not
part of standard C, and are therefore off-topic in comp.lang.c (though
asking whether pipes are topical would be perfectly topical). And
cross-posting an initial article (not a followup) to two newsgroups
and setting followups to just one of them is a bit odd; I think Jack
overreacted to that. If your original article were topical to both
newsgroups, it wouldn't make much sense to redirect followups away
from comp.lang.c; if it weren't, it wouldn't make much sense to
crosspost in the first place. And if you're going to redirect
followups, you should probably mention it in the body of your post, so
readers know where the discussion is going. Redirecting followups
makes sense later in a discussion if the topic has drifted; it's
seldom the right thing to do on an initial post.

comp.lang.c fights a continuous battle to remain focused on its topic.
It's a high-volume newsgroup with a name that suggests to some
(incorrectly) that it's the place to ask any question about C
programming. We're in constant danger of being overwhelmed with
system-specific questions that we're really not qualified to answer.
(Yeah, I'm probably overstating the case a bit.) We're usually
reasonably polite about letting people know that this isn't the right
place for their questions, but we are imperfect. 

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