On Fri, Oct 7, 2011 at 9:52 PM, Scott Ferguson <prettyfly.producti...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 08/10/11 03:56, Harry Putnam wrote: >> Scott Ferguson <prettyfly.producti...@gmail.com> writes: >> >> [...] >> >>>>> It's considered bad manners to cross post - why waste more peoples >>>>> time? >>>> >>>> Why is that wasting anyones time. Some people read it here some >>>> there, if they don't like the subject or content they move on. > > What happens it that most lists (officially or otherwise) have people > who try and make sure all requests for assistance are answered - when > you cross post it can happen that two people on different lists invest > time (that could be spent elsewhere) on answering a question. Only one > correct solution is useful - so the other work is redundant. > In this instance the issue *is* upstream (X.org or the > freedesktop.org.) - while I've suggested solutions that may work > (work-arounds), the best solutions are ones made upstream - and they'll > take time to come downstream.
I disagree. Even on this one list, there may be more than one person "investing time" to answer a post. Big deal! As long as it isn't no-genune, nuisance post as we've had in the past - and will probably have in the future. This "don't cross-post" convention is a pre-historic inheritance from when there were a dozen Linux users subscribing to the same half-dozen lists... -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/CAOdo=swezzuqvhfgzfrkuybpezcg-qxqrsfuh9+h34e25sh...@mail.gmail.com
