Re: skip path prune
- From: Jimi-Carlo Bukowski-Wills <jimi-carlo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 06 Aug 2006 09:47:39 GMT
I think people get more pissed off about it if it's not obviously related
to a group, or if the subject is more closely related to a different group
that has been posted to. I personally don't have a problem with it TO
START A MESSAGE!... but then it's good for somebody to say "this belongs
in perl.beginners... lets continue the thread there without cross
posting"... otherwise we get multiple copies of threads across topics in
our archives... essentially a waste of space.
On the other hand, of course, if the subject really does overlap several
groups then I think you should be allowed to keep the thread cross-posted
so that others can find the thread in any of the groups it's relevant to.
If it were that much of a crime it'd be made impossible, right?
I have chosen to continue this tread in perl.beginners because the use of
newsgroups is kind of a beginner subject.... but I could have cross-posted
it to other beginner groups... or newsgroup.help groups and I would
consider that OK... others might not though.
On Sun, 06 Aug 2006 03:34:36 +0000, David Combs wrote:
In article <1153160511.344516.302160@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
Paul Lalli <mritty@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
weberw@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
How do you use the prune function to skip a printing all of the
contents of a folder? It will not print folder 3 but does print the
contents of folder 3 which I do not want printed.
You have posted the same message (at least) three different times to
(at least) three different newsgroups. This is called "Multiposting"
and is extremely rude. I have answered you in perl.beginners, and
someone else answered you in comp.lang.perl.misc. If I had realized
you multiposted in the first place, I probably wouldn't have replied at
all.
In the future, if you really *need* to post to many different groups,
please *crosspost* as I am doing here. That is, send one message to
multiple groups, rather than sending multiple copies of a single
message to multiple groups.
Paul Lalli
Man, whenever *I* try that (crossposting), do I get flamed!
Like it's some religious principle, "Thou shalt never crosspost".
I always thought crossposting was really useful, by
enabling members of several newsgroups to communicate
amongst each other on a given topic.
Especially when the groups are somewhat unrelated, perhaps
perl and php and lisp, or engineering and physics.
Broadens the scope of idea-sources.
David
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