"Waylen Gumbal" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Sherman Pendley wrote: >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: >> > >> > > PLEASE DO NOT | :.:\:\:/:/:.: >> > > FEED THE TROLLS | :=.' - - '.=: >Not everyone follows language-neutral groups (such as comp,programming >as you pointed out), so you actually reach more people by cross posting.
You seem so have failed to grasp the concept of why Usenet is divided into separate groups in the first place. >This is what I don't understand - everyone seems to assume that by cross >posting, one intends on start a "flamefest", when in fact most such >"flamefests" are started by those who cannot bring themselves to >skipping over the topic that they so dislike. By your argument there is no need for individual groups in the first place. We could just as well use a single "HereGoesEverything" and just skip over those topics that we so dislike. jue -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list