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Frans Bouma [C# MVP] wrote:
errr false statements? WHere?

Well, most recently: your claim that his question would be off-topic in the C# newsgroup, as well as your claim that suggesting to someone that they cross-post correctly rather than multi-posting isn't helpful.

You really don't get it do you...

It appears you don't. Let me try to help...

If I read here FIRST, how can I know if the question is answered
elsewhere?

If the post had been cross-posted correctly, any reply in the other newsgroup would also show up here. That's how.

Are you sure that you know the difference between a "multi-post" and a "cross-post"? You should really understand the terminology before you go off on a rant related to the terminology.

Secondly, why should I care? I see the question HERE, I know
the answer, I answer it.

Fine. Not everyone has the copious time you apparently do, and so not everyone wants to waste time answer a question that has already been answered multiple times already.

Just because you don't mind wasting your time, don't assume no one else does.

If someone else has answered it as well in
another newsgroup, via the phone, on a website or via snailmail, I
don't give a hoot and neither should you.

It's fine for you to say you don't give a hoot. It is incredibly arrogant and presumptuous for you to assert no one else should.

I mean: why bother replying
about that to the questionaire ? I see dozens and dozens of posts every
day violating some stone-age netiquette. I don't see anyone replying to
them fortunatelly.

Some etiquette is more important than other etiquette.

It's a matter of basic etiquette and consideration for the people who
take the time to answer questions.

I do that for over a decade now and you don't have to tell me what
usenet is and how it works.

Apparently, I do.

If you had spent any time in the C# newsgroup, you would discover
that it is a de facto "framework" newsgroup for anyone using .NET
with C#.

Gee, Peter, how much time do you think I've spent in that newsgroup in
the last 5 years ?

I have no idea. But whatever time you spent there, you haven't been paying attention if you believe that the newsgroup is strictly for questions about the C# language.

You nittpick over a stupid thing which is totally irrelevant (as his
post was totally on-topic here) while you could have invested that same
time in answering a question.

I _did_ invest some time in answering one of his questions. Duh.

You are welcome to your own opinion regarding the usefulness of commenting on multi-posting versus cross-posting. However, it's pretty "stupid" (to use your word) of yourself to engage in the same kind of petty nit-picking that you claim my reply was.

If you
want to start nittpicking on everyone here, please do it
consequently.
"Consequently"? What's that supposed to mean?

consistently, whatever I have to look it up, I'm not a native english
speaker.

I don't understand. You want me to nitpick ALL the time, if I am to nitpick at all?

How is that an improvement?

Regardless, I don't "want to start nittpicking on everyone here". I
hardly nitpick at all, but when someone cross-posts and wastes a
bunch of other people's time, yes...I will comment.

don't bother. First it's a waste of time as well and second of all, it
makes this and other newsgroups a mess with useless posts about what
people shouldn't do.

No. What makes this newsgroup a mess is sub-threads like this one that YOU started. I provided a suggestion to the OP. There was no need for your rude reply, nor for your continued badgering. Yet, you persist.

If it bothers you so much, I recommend that you stop doing it.

Hmmm, let me see. I read/post in newsgroups now for a looooooong time
and I've seen this same argument at least a hundred times but it never
really payed off, as there's always another person making the same
'mistake'.

I doubt you've seen the argument literally a hundred times. Regardless, even if you have, how can you claim "it never really payed off"? How did you measure the results in a way that allows you to make that claim?

My experience has been the opposite: most people, when instructed to not multi-post, stop doing it.

And why is it important to tell a person not to crosspost,

I never told anyone not to cross-post. I told him not to multi-post.

while the majority of posts here and in other .net newsgroups are
totally off-topic?

Another false claim.

I do note that for someone who is so concerned about wasted bandwidth
and off-topic posts, you have invested an inordinate amount of effort
and bandwidth for this issue. Ever heard the saying "practice what
you preach"?

Yeah, look in the mirror, Peter, who started posting posts about
telling others that they should stop something, like that's on topic!

But I'm not the one complaining that the post is off-topic. You are.

Frankly, I don't like off-topic posts either, but occasionally there is a need for a "meta-topic" post, discussing the usage of the newsgroup rather than the topic of the newsgroup itself. In those scenarios, I find that the thread is more "good" than "bad", and IMHO is not really "off-topic".

However, if a person (such as yourself) is going to complain about ALL off-topic posts, asserting that there is NO valid reason for an off-topic post, it's pretty hypocritical to then start posting your own off-topic posts in reply.

Pete
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