Re: Newbie: Is it possible for a function to return a String or Character Arrays?

From: Brooks Moses (bmoses-nospam_at_cits1.stanford.edu)
Date: 01/23/05 

Date: Sun, 23 Jan 2005 00:03:26 -0800

Ron Shepard wrote:
> In article <1106166101.603161.195660@c13g2000cwb.googlegroups.com>,
> beliavsky@aol.com wrote:
> > I don't think it is proper to post the same question simultaneously in
> > two distinct forums. It wastes the time of people who reply.
>
> It is not clear exactly what you are discouraging. What should be
> discouraged is posting the same question in multiple newgroups as
> separate posts -- anyone who reads the multiple groups will see the
> post multiple times, which is a waste of time. However, if a single
> question is crossposted to multiple groups, then anyone reading more
> than one of those groups will see the post only once, so there is no
> problem with wasted time.

The question in question was posted to this newsgroup and to Intel's web
forum. It's not possible to crosspost between them in such a way that
replies show up in both.

For that matter, I've seen very few questions that really benefited from
being crossposted to multiple newsgroups on Usenet -- the useful answers
seem to virtually always only come from one group. Further, there is
often the problem of a crossposted thread having one "foot" in a
high-traffic group where topics often shift into tangential discussions,
and having another "foot" in a low-traffic group that gets overwhelmed
by the crossposted tangential (and usually off-topic) discussion. So I
would advise doing it only with considerable caution, and only in cases
where one has a fair familiarity with both groups and would expect them
to be compatible.

(This is why it's often recommended, when crossposting, to set followups
to a single group and to explicitly note in the message that followups
have been set there.)

- Brooks 

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