Re: instance of class into sub?

From: gep (98734_at_mail.muni.cz)
Date: 06/17/04 

Date: Thu, 17 Jun 2004 15:44:30 GMT

Eric Bohlman wrote:
> Paul Lalli <ittyspam@yahoo.com> wrote in
> news:20040617065025.W20623@dishwasher.cs.rpi.edu:
>
>
>>No one's complaining that you sent to 2 different newsgroups. They're
>>complaining about the *method* in which you did so. The method you
>>used is called "multi-posting". This means sending one message to one
>>group, and then sending a copy of that message to another group. This
>>is considered rude. The reason is that many people use mail readers
>>which download messages from multiple groups at a time. Because of
>>what you did, they saw your message twice for no reason.
>
>
> Actually, that's one of the smaller parts of the reason. The biggest part
> of the reason is that someone reading the followups to a multi-posted
> message has to read several groups, not just one, in order to see them all.
> If, say, a message is multi-posted to comp.lang.perl.misc and
> comp.lang.perl.modules (as the original was), then someone reading
> c.l.p.misc won't see any of the responses in c.l.p.modules, at least not
> until he reads the latter group (if he in fact does).
>
> Why is that rude? Because the person reading c.l.p.misc might very well
> take the time to post a response and then, upon going to c.l.p.modules,
> discover that someone else posted essentially the same response there. So
> the first person has wasted his time answering a question that's already
> been answered. If the message had been crossposted, he'd have quickly seen
> that the question had already been answered and not bothered to post a
> redundant response.
I dont think so, because he will help people, who read only one of the
newsgs. The same situation could appear, when somebody writes sth. and
then he posts it and then he finds out, that the same answer is there
yet, because sb else...
>
> Multi-posting fragments threads that should be kept together, leading to
> duplication of effort and in many cases inadequate peer review of
> responses.

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