Re: Noobie question: Am I on the right track?


Mike Lowery <selfspam@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> loquated like no one had ever
loquated before with:

"WTH" <wth@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:OPcNDdHoGHA.5096@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

"Mike Lowery" <selfspam@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:ePQ5U2FoGHA.3424@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
"Multi-posting means posting the same question separately to two or
more newsgroups or listservs. Never multi-post a question. It
results in duplication of effort and will alienate those who
regularly help. If you find you have posted to the wrong group,
write a response in the wrong group indicating that fact and
indicate to which group you have move the post. Cross-posting means
including two or more newsgroups in the
Newsgroups: line of your post. Cross-posting to even two groups
is very rarely required and should be used only when you absolutely
understand what you are doing. Always set the Followup-to: header
to one of the newsgroups when cross-posting."

http://tmhare.mvps.org/help.htm

If you continue to ignore advice, we may choose to ignore you.

Fascism run in your blood?

No. Does narcissism run in yours?

Narcissism? Maybe you should look that word up. LOL. You are insistent on
telling someone that posting to an SDK group and a server group is redundant
when the person doing the posting does not know which of the two groups
contains personnel with the knowledge to answer the question they have
posed. The only person displaying narcissistic tendencies is yourself. You
continue to harrass someone who disagrees with you about a subjective topic
which YOU brought up. You insist that someone take your 'advice.' You
can't seem to drop it.

Do you insist that everyone think the way you do?

Some of us try to follow the rules/guildeliness. But you insist on
making this MY issue and ignoring that there are websites dedicated
to this subject, including the one I gave you above which
specifically mentions these Microsoft newsgroups.

LOL, I insist on making an issue of your own creation your issue? Goodness
gracious, how silly of me. There are indeed websites dedicated to the
promotion of cross posting over multi-posting, of multi-posting over
cross-posting, over the impropriety of both approaches. Heavens forbid I
don't believe your God and instead believe in another one. I'm sure you're
going to reply back with another post about how your God can kick my God's
***, et cetera...

If you'd bothered to google on cross posting and multi-posting you'd
find that there are proponents of both and detractors of both. Long
time usenet users, in my experience, tend to prefer mutlti-posting
to cross posting explicitly due to the separation of the threads. REALLY
old usenet users don't like either and prefer cross-posting.

And if you'd bothered to look at other responses in these newsgroups
you'd find that multi-posting is frowned upon.

Other responses in these newsgroups? I'm supposed to search through a
subset of newsgroups that I've never posted to in an effort to discern
whether or not a commonly accepted practice (under the correct circumstances
such as not knowing which group to post to) is acceptable therein prior to
making a first post ever? I hear jack-boots...

For someone against multi-posting (presumably because of post
duplication on servers which carry both groups) you sure don't mind
wasting bandwidth with threads.

No, I just love guys like you who won't take the advice of others

You just love guys like me who disagree with you about, as far as we know,
one little thing? FFS man, get a grip.

and insist that they're right and everyone else is wrong.

I don't insist I'm right, I'm not telling YOU how to post, YOU are insisting
upon telling me that I'm wrong and that YOU are right. If you want to
cross-post a query to two different groups because you don't know which
group is appropriate for the answer, I certainly wouldn't presume to educate
you about 'wrong' you were to do so. I'd think it wasn't any of my business
unless you were a habitual cross-poster (almost sounds like a transgender
issue) in which case I still wouldn't be telling you to multi-post instead
of cross-posting, I'd be pointing out that you should be posting ot one
group most likely.

Instead of considering constructive suggestions, you refute them and then
imply
the suggestion is wrong.

I'm sorry, who told who not to do something (because it was wrong) first?

I very much considered your suggestion, disagreed with it, and told you so
in what I believe were very polite and reasoned terms.

No society benefits from people like that.

Wow, suddenly I'm a detraction to society as a whole? LOL. Jack-boots
getting closer...

So in this case we're all left having to read you question over and
over again in multiple newsgroups. Thanks for wasting everyone's time!

The irony of your statement above is that *because I multi-posted* instead
of cross-posting, nobody reading the thread where a technical discussion has
taken place had to read your posts about how to type on the inter-web.

Gladly.

Last word! :)


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