George Neuner wrote: > On Thu, 8 May 2008 22:38:44 -0700, "Waylen Gumbal" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote:
> > Not everyone follows language-neutral groups (such as > > comp,programming as you pointed out), so you actually reach more > > people by cross posting. 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. > > The problem is that many initial posts have topics that are misleading > or simplistic. Often an interesting discussion can start on some > point the initial poster never considered or meant to raise. Is this not a possibility for any topic, whether it's cross-posted or not? -- wg -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
