On Sun, 2012-08-12 at 15:27 +0000, Camaleón wrote: > On Mon, 13 Aug 2012 01:45:29 +1200, Chris Bannister wrote: > > > On Fri, Aug 10, 2012 at 03:05:56PM +0000, Camaleón wrote: > >> On Fri, 10 Aug 2012 12:27:22 +0200, Francesco Pietra wrote: > >> > >> (please, don't cross-post without warning the users about it) > > > > Huh? Since when? > > Since always (RFC1855¹): > > "3.1.2 Mailing List Guidelines > > (...) > > - When sending a message to more than one mailing list, especially > if the lists are closely related, apologize for cross-posting." > > There is nothing bad with this act "per se" (unless you do abuse of it, > of course), but when you cross-post a message to many different mailing > lists, netiquette (and common sense) says you have to warn the users > about it. > > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crossposting > > > > "A crossposted message takes up less server storage space, and creates > > less network traffic, than if individual messages had been posted to > > multiple newsgroups." > > Thanks, the full Wikipedia article (and not just the small copy/paste > chunk you sent) indeed expands, confirms and complements my POV. > > > You might be confusing cross posting with multi posting; multi posting > > is frowned upon. > > No, I have not confused both things. > > > Besides, it is obvious in the headers whether the message is cross > > posted, the warning is hence redundant, extra typing, and therefore > > unnecessary. > > Not that obvious! > > Not all of us use the same kind of readers nor have the same > configuration settings nor have that information expanded in front of our > eyes. > > ¹http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc1855 > > Greetings, > > -- > Camaleón
Some days ago I cross-posted, apologized and warned! It's anyway not the best idea to do so. Excepted of some announcements cross-posting isn't a good idea, sometimes it's just less work for the person who does the post, but it e.g. very often leads to dead threads etc.. -- 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/1344786014.2207.57.camel@precise
